{"id":228876,"date":"2026-03-29T02:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zwg-annual-inflation-rises-to-44-percent-as-middle-east-tension-drive-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:08:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:08:05","slug":"zimbabwe-zwg-annual-inflation-rises-to-44-percent-as-middle-east-tension-drive-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zwg-annual-inflation-rises-to-44-percent-as-middle-east-tension-drive-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZWG Annual Inflation Rises to 4,4 Percent As Middle East Tension Drive Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s annual inflation rate rose slightly to 4.4% in March 2026, driven largely by global fuel price increases linked to escalating tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The spike in fuel costs follows the ongoing US-Iran conflict, which has disrupted supply chains in key Middle Eastern markets, a strategic source of fuel for Zimbabwe. As a result, local fuel prices have climbed to around US$2.17 per litre, putting upward pressure on the cost of goods and services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Presenting the latest inflation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s annual inflation rate rose slightly to 4.4% in March 2026, driven largely by global fuel price increases linked to escalating tensions in the Middle East. The spike in fuel costs follows the ongoing US-Iran conflict, which has disrupted supply chains in key Middle Eastern markets, a strategic source of fuel for Zimbabwe. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5854,11509,13716,6719,6265,16940,257,6720,8688,254,7180,4686,421,49898],"class_list":["post-228876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-annual","tag-costs","tag-drive","tag-east","tag-inflation","tag-middle","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tension","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zwg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228876","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=228876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}