{"id":10298,"date":"2012-05-11T13:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10298"},"modified":"2012-05-11T13:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:41:31","slug":"petrol-and-diesel-prices-go-up-by-over-30-and-32-percent-respectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/petrol-and-diesel-prices-go-up-by-over-30-and-32-percent-respectively\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol and Diesel prices go up by over 30 and 32 percent respectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Malawi has adjusted the petrol and diesel prices upwards after recently adopting a liberalised foreign exchange regime that saw the kwacha devalue by more that 48 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol price was adjusted from K380.00 to K490.00 per litre (30 percent increase) and diesel increased from K360.00 to K475.00 representing a 32 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel increase is less than what was expected considering the percentage of the devaluation and as such motorists will be slightly relieved.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, government has announced that it is going to stop regulating fuel prices and this will mean prices will be determined by market forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi has adjusted the petrol and diesel prices upwards after recently adopting a liberalised foreign exchange regime that saw the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1511,755,466,1728,258,1762],"class_list":["post-10298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-devaluation","tag-fuel","tag-joyce-banda","tag-ken-lipenga","tag-malawi","tag-reserve-bank-of-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}