NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's annual inflation rate rose to 5.9 percent in June from 5.0 percent in May, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday.

Prices for green label tea, kerosene, charcoal, diesel and petrol were among those that rose, while prices of rice, maize grain, wheat flour, cassava, meat and milk were among those that eased, the statistics bureau said.

Tanzania's National Consumer Price Index covers market prices of 207 items collected in 20 towns in mainland Tanzania.