Kenya Inflation Quickens to Three-Month High as Food Prices Jump
Consumer prices rose 4.1% in July compared with 3.8% a month earlier, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday in an emailed statement. That matched the median estimate of five economists in a Bloomberg survey and the monetary policy committee's projected level for July.
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