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Bank of Uganda holds key interest rate at 12%
Uganda’s central bank held its benchmark rate at 12% on 9 November, following an emergency increase in October and a rise in annual inflation to 5.8%.
Monday 9th November 2026
By inAfrika Newsroom
Kenya produced 7.62 million tonnes of cement from January through August 2026, up 14% from 6.68 million tonnes in the same period of 2025, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
August output rose to 1.055 million tonnes from 1.029 million in July, an increase of about 2.5%. It was also above the roughly 920,000 tonnes produced in August 2025.
The bureau reported that cement consumption rose to 1.039 million tonnes in August from 1.008 million in July. The two measures track different activity. Production measures factory output, while the bureau publishes a separate estimate for consumption.
The figures are in Table 17(e) of the bureau’s August Leading Economic Indicators report. The bureau also publishes a dashboard with month-by-month output and comparisons with 2025.
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