Rwanda’s inflation rate increases slightly to 3.8% in September

Rwanda’s urban Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 3.8 per cent on annual basis in September, from 3.2 per cent registered the previous month, the statistics body has indicated in its monthly report. The increase was mainly due to 8.3 per cent rise in prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, and 2.4 per cent and 1.5 per cent increase of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, and transport, respectively, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda CPI report released yesterday.