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By Geoffrey Kapembwa

April 30 (Bloomberg) — Inflation in Zambia, Africa’s biggest copper producer, accelerated to an annual 10.1 percent in April as food costs increased, the Central Statistical Office said.

The inflation rate climbed from 9.8 percent last month, Efreda Chulu, director of statistics at the agency, told reporters today in the capital, Lusaka.

Zambia’s central bank said April 28 that inflation will slow in the second quarter because of a decline in food prices, the kwacha’s strength against “major” foreign currencies in the first quarter and a reduction in taxes.

To contact the reporters on this story: Geoffrey Kapembwa in Lusaka via Johannesburg on pmrichardson@bloomberg.net