Drop in price of food helped ease cost of living for Kenyans in October

Tuskys Customer Emmah Omwenga at the Nairobi Tuskys vegetable corner along Muindi Mbingu Street. (PHOTO/JONAH ONYANGO)

A drop in the price of food helped ease the cost of living for Kenyans in October as inflation fell to 5.72 per cent from 7.06 per cent in September.

There was an overall drop in the prices of all food items, with food inflation hitting a single digit for the first time in 17 months since June 2016, when food inflation stood at 8.89 per cent.