OFFICIALS in Malawi insisted that pop star Madonna was going to adopt a local child but acknowledged tension with the visiting singer, who denies having chosen an orphan boy.
ldquo;Madonna's people asked us to identify 12 children aged one and the ministry of women and child development has done (that) and what I know so far is that she identified one child yesterday, rdquo; said Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati.A spokeswoman for Madonna yesterday denied that the diva had adopted a baby boy from an orphanage shortly after arriving in Malawi this week or that she had asked government officials to assist in an adoption.
Amid the confusion, Henry Chimunthu Banda, Malawi's minister of energy, mines and natural resources, said the government would say nothing more until he met the 48-year-old star on behalf of the Malawian president.
ldquo;The earlier statements by government have caused some concerns from the Madonna camp in Malawi, rdquo; Mr Banda, a senior minister, said when asked about the differing accounts of the singer's reported adoption plan.
He did not provide further details.
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