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Data from Tanzania’s national bureau of statistics has revealed that food prices are now rising at 11% per month; months after the Government admitted that a drought was ravaging the country.
Inflation overall rose to above 6%, squeezing the country’s population even harder. President John Magufuli initially asked people to simply ‘work harder’, before the Ministry of Agriculture called for assistance to support one million people facing food shortage.
Now the bureau of statistics shows that prices are on an upward curve, and things look set to get worse.
