April 6, 2019
A shop owner poses for a photograph at the Mercato market in Addis Ababa December 16, 2015. Addis Ababa’s ‘Mercato’ REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian inflation rose to 11.2 percent in the year to March, the statistics bureau said on Saturday.
Year-on-year inflation was 10.9 percent in February.
The rise was mainly due to an increase in the price of cereals in the food basket, and non-food items such as house rent, fuel such as charcoal and wood, and transport, the bureau said.
Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Mark Potter