{
  "id": 10948173,
  "title": "KNBS Consumer Price Index: Kenya’s inflation is 6.8%, but non-core prices are rising at 14%",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/knbs-consumer-price-index-kenyas-inflation-is-6-8-but-non-core-prices",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-30T13:10:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/business/knbs-consumer-price-index-kenyas-inflation-is-6-8-but-non-core-prices-are-rising-at-14"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kenya’s 6.8 per cent inflation rate in September 2026 masks a much wider divergence in price pressures, with non-core inflation running at 14.0 per cent, according to the latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). The figures show that the overall inflation rate does not capture the full extent of price increases […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}