{"id":181927,"date":"2024-10-05T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-inflation-hits-four-year-high-amid-drought-growth-slows\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T16:00:15","slug":"zambia-inflation-hits-four-year-high-amid-drought-growth-slows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-inflation-hits-four-year-high-amid-drought-growth-slows\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Inflation Hits Four-Year High Amid Drought, Growth Slows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zambia&#8217;s annual inflation rate reaches 15.6% in September, the highest in nearly four years, driven by rising food prices amid an El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought.<\/li>\n<li>The drought impacts agricultural output, leading to reduced crop yields and limitations in hydropower generation, resulting in prolonged electricity outages.<\/li>\n<li>Despite economic challenges, Zambia projects a 6.6% growth in 2025, aided by an anticipated recovery from the drought and increased imports of food and electricity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Zambia&#8217;s annual&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410030301.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Zambia&#8217;s annual inflation rate reaches 15.6% in September, the highest in nearly four years, driven by rising food prices amid an El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought. The drought impacts agricultural output, leading to reduced crop yields and limitations in hydropower generation, resulting in prolonged electricity outages. Despite economic challenges, Zambia projects a 6.6% growth in 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651875:1fd7e8e4758a35d0fca40af146a3359c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,4787,12246,6641,6184,7111,6265,257,10185,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-181927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drought","tag-growth","tag-high","tag-hits","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-slows","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651875:1fd7e8e4758a35d0fca40af146a3359c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}