RABAT - Morocco's inflation, measured by the consumer price index (CPI), slowed to 3.6% year-on-year in November, from 4.3% a month earlier, the statistics agency HCP said on Wednesday.

Food prices, the main driver for inflation in Morocco, rose by 7.6% from a year earlier, while non-food inflation increased by 0.7%. On a month-on-month basis, the index dropped 0.3%.

Core inflation, which excludes more volatile prices, was flat month-on-month and up 3.6% year-on-year.

(Reporting by Ahmed Eljechtimi; Editing by Andrew Heavens)