INFLATION

 Egypt’s annual headline inflation recorded 14.6% in July 2022, compared to 6.1% in the same month of 2021, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced in a press release …

Nigeria’s inflation rate is now 20 per cent above the World Bank’s projection of 15.5 per cent. In its recent ‘Nigeria Development Update (June 2022): The Continuing Urgency of Business …

The National Bureau of Statistics on Friday revealed that the nation’s headline inflation rate increased to 18.60 per cent in June, up from 17.71 per cent in the previous month. …

A new blow to the purchasing power of Zimbabweans. The latest figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency showed Saturday that the country’s annual inflation rate reached 191% in June. The …

Inflation may worsen as Federal Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances rose from N17.46tn as of December 2021 to N19.01tn as of …

Ghana’s inflation rate jumped to the highest level in more than 18 years in May as food and transport costs surged. Annual inflation accelerated to 27.6%, the fastest pace since …

The statistics office said on Wednesday that the Inflation rate in Zimbabwe has jumped to 131.7% this May, as fallout from the Ukraine war hit an already battered economy. Inflation …

The central bank of Ghana has raised its main interest rate by 200 basis points to 19% to control inflationary pressures and promote macroeconomic stability, Ernest Addison governor of the …

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has announced a series of planned privatizations of state-owned companies, as the country struggles with an economic crisis and inflation at almost 15% in April. …