Morocco's High Commission for Planning revealed that the inflation rate in the Kingdom, based on the consumer price index, slowed to 4.9 percent year-on-year in July, compared to 5.5 percent last month.
Food prices, the main driver of inflation in Morocco, rose 11.7 percent year-on-year while non-food commodity prices rose 0.4 percent and month-on-month, the index rose 0.3 percent.
Core inflation, which does not include volatile items, was 5.4 percent year-on-year and 0.3 percent month-on-month.
Source (Al-Arabiya.net Website, Edited)
