Congo’s prices, August 2025: inflation 7.76 per cent, with transport at twice that pace
National inflation kept falling while one week's fares and telecoms ran at more than twice the aggregate. By Kanisa Magazine · August 2025 Congo's national inflation rate fell to 7.76 per cent in the year to 22 August 2025, and the second week of August showed what...
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Congo’s July price signal: inflation near 9 per cent, but fuel diverges by region
Annual inflation was 8.66 per cent in mid-July, from 15.52 per cent in December. A regional fuel revision on 28 July shows pressure sits outside Kinshasa, in kerosene, diesel and transport costs.
Food drives 63% of Kinshasa’s inflation while the pump price waits to move
Congo’s annual inflation fell to 10.49 per cent by mid-June 2021, but food carried 63 per cent of the Kinshasa price signal, phone and power prices rose fastest, and the pump price sat frozen under a 44 per cent oil rise.
Congo’s May prices: inflation near 12 per cent and a real policy rate that fixed itself
Annual inflation fell to 11.69 per cent on the BCC’s policy measure and 13.47 per cent in Kinshasa, while cassava prices flattened. The real policy rate rose from minus 4.14 to minus 1.19 per cent without a decision.
Congo’s mobile wallets in April 2021: free transfers end, and fees start paying for scale
Congo’s mobile-money operators spent early 2021 turning users into revenue. Fee-free transfers ended in January, customer bases kept growing, and a new government put digital technology among its stated priorities.
Congo’s April inflation: a falling 16.7 per cent headline over a 0.1 per cent weekly drift
In April the BCC’s Kinshasa index showed annual inflation sliding from 22.5 to 16.7 per cent while weekly price rises ran near 0.1 per cent. Households still face a cassava squeeze.
Two weeks of cassava, twelve weeks of everything else: Kinshasa’s prices in March 2021
Kinshasa’s March 2021 price index rose 1.19 per cent in twelve weeks, but tubers and cassava gained 1.2 per cent in two. Annual inflation fell to 16.9 per cent as last year’s pandemic spike dropped out.
Cassava outran the CPI: what Kinshasa’s February price index hid about household pressure
The BCC’s February 2021 price index shows Kinshasa inflation easing to a 5.8 per cent annualised pace, while cassava, tubers and bananas rose far faster. Road costs, not the exchange rate, drove the squeeze.
Cassava, not the dollar, drove Congo’s January price pressure
Kinshasa’s retail index shows locally grown staples rising five times faster than the general index in January, with the franc almost flat. What that means for retailers, wage reviews and household budgets.
Congo’s prices end 2020 up 20.5 per cent, and 2021 has already inherited about six more
Prices on the BCC’s national index closed December 20.5 per cent above a year earlier, against an annual average of 13.8 per cent. That gap implies roughly 6 per cent of 2021 inflation before a single new price rise.
Congo’s inflation has two readings, 15.5 and 20.3 per cent, and the weekly pace is slowing
The BCC’s national price index showed 0.15 per cent weekly inflation in the week to 22 November, under half the year’s average pace. Annual inflation reads 15.5 per cent on the INS series and 20.3 per cent on the BCC index.
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