adopt a one-year-old boy from the impoverished African country, a senior court official said on Thursday.
she planned to adopt a child.
"Madonna was granted an interim order to adopt the child, which court to either allow her to adopt the child or not," the high court's deputy registrar Thomson Ligowe told Reuters.
years.
how she will relate to the child, and people from social welfare will have to observe that. The court will depend upon their observations to make a final decision," Ligowe added.
The 48-year-old singer, a master self-promoter, has kept largely out of the limelight since arriving in Malawi on October 4, a visit to one orphanage.
Ligowe said Madonna was free to take the boy, David Banda, an orphan, when she leaves Malawi, most likely on Friday.
order but declined to give details, citing confidentiality provisions of the process.
Henderson Geza Dyedyereke, the headman of Lipunga, the boy's village near the Zambian border, confirmed the adoption plan on Wednesday.
He told Reuters he was informed of the adoption by Rev. Thomson Chipeta, the executive director of the Home of Hope Orphan Care Center in Mchinji, where Banda is being cared for.
States and Britain, most unlikely settings for the young Banda, who shortly after he was born.
basis of the court's next decision.
Ritchie)," said Andrina Mchiela, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
the child will be," she added.
Madonna, who has a son and daughter, has spent most of the past campaign to publicise the plight of some 900,000 orphans in the country 13 million people, where AIDS has destroyed many families.
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