Madonna and baby David return to Malawian orphanage

Madonna returned to the Malawian orphanage where she found her baby David Banda today, accompanied by her newly adopted son and nine-year-old daughter, Lourdes.

Children at the Home of Hope orphanage in the village of Mchinji sang songs for Madonna and her children during their visit.

A reunion with David’s biological father was scheduled to take place.

Malawi police clashed with stone-throwing school students during the pop star’s visit, preventing journalists from covering the expected reunion with Yohane Banda. It is still unclear whether any meeting took place.

Teenage students in black and yellow uniforms from the secondary school at the Mchinji Home of Hope orphanage hurled stones at cars and formed a protective ring around the building.

Apparently seeking to fulfil the orphanage’s pledge that one-year-old David Banda’s visit with his father would be private, police forced the journalists back, preventing them from following Madonna’s convoy into the compound.

Since the US pop diva arrived in Malawi, accompanied by David and her daughter Lourdes, she has been trailed by a pack of journalists in a media furore echoing her first trip to the poor African nation last year, when she started the adoption process.

Banda, David’s father, has complained he has no access to Madonna and struggles to get information about his son, who was placed in the Home of Hope orphanage after his mother died.

Madonna is paying for a new clinic to be built in the village of Gumulira and is supporting efforts by aid groups to help improve food security and education there.

From This Is London. Click here and here for two fantastic pictures of Madonna with Lola and David.