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Female president to resign over credit card spent on clothes, jewellery

Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim. She is to resign to resign after a credit card expenditure row [File, AFP]

Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim will step down next week, the prime minister said on Friday, after she was accused of using a credit card issued by an international non-governmental organisation to buy clothes and jewellery.

Pravind Jugnauth, the prime minister, told reporters Gurib-Fakim would resign after March 12, after the celebration of the country's 50th anniversary.

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