U.S. pop star Madonna visits Salaza village near Lilongwe, Malawi, Friday, April, 3, 2009. Madonna is very close to adopting the Malawian orphan. A U.S. government official has reportedly confirmed that an adoption bid by the 50-year-old American superstar was under way. Mercy’s mother died during child. Madonna previously adopted Malawian boy David Banda.
Madonna and her daughter Lourdes arrived in Malawi to adopt four-year-old Mercy James today. The two spent their time touring an impoverished village and Madonna discussed plans to build a new school.
Her uncles, who live in a remote rural area and who are her closest relatives, said they had no idea who Madonna was. The singer has an appointment with a judge in Malawi tomorrow in the hope that the adoption papers will be signed. Loving family: Mercy in a snap taken at home with uncles Peter and John and grandma Lucy But the uncles.
US pop star Madonna has left Malawi on a private jet after failing to adopt a second child from the country. Madonna previously adopted Malawian boy David Banda. Last week a Malawian court rejected the adoption over residency rules but the singer's lawyer has said that she will appeal against the ruling.
The 50-year-old singer applied to adopt Chifundo James, whose name translates into English as Mercy, on Monday.Chifundo is in the same orphanage that previously housed David Banda, Madonna's first adopted child. Had her application been successful, Chifundo would have been a sister to David and her biological children Lourdes and Rocco.
Madonna's application was rejected because of a requirement that prospective parents be resident in the southern African state for 18 to 24 months. No date has been set for a court hearing to appeal against the judge's ruling.
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