visiting singer, who denies having chosen an orphan boy.
"Madonna's people asked us to identify 12 children aged one, and what I know so far is that she identified one child yesterday," said Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati.
her.
African nation, her spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, said.
"She is going to orphanages, and she is meeting a lot of children, but she hasn't adopted one," Rosenberg, a Warner Bros. Records executive, told Reuters.
"She is not in the process of adopting a child as we speak. She has not selected one. She has not asked that 12 children be lined up.
None of that has happened."
boy.
Amid the conflicting accounts, Henry Chimunthu Banda, Malawi's minister of energy, mines and natural resources, said the of the Malawian president on Friday.
from the Madonna camp in Malawi," Banda, a senior minister, told Reuters when asked about the dispute.
He did not provide further details.
entourage since they arrived on a private jet.
poverty-stricken 13 million people, who are dependent on tobacco exports for economic survival.
fund a documentary about the plight of children there.
Madonna, who is the mother of two children, on Wednesday traveled to a village 20 km outside the capital Lilongwe, where she On Thursday she and her husband, British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, Blantyre, in southern Malawi.
She did not talk to the press.
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