Madonna Disappoints Malawi Villagers

Locals complain that they have been disappointed at not being able to see Madonna in a Malawian village.

US pop icon Madonna who is now in Malawi disappointed hundreds of villagers who turned up at an orphanage in Malawi on Tuesday hoping to see the star and her adopted son David Banda. David Banda is now three years old. Guarded by police the pair spent several hours at the Home of Hope orphanage where she first found David. The pop icon used a different route to exit from the orphanage without being photographed. David was returning to his orphanage for the second time since he was adopted in 2006. "She came to pay back to the orphanage which gave her David," Chipililo Mushenge, one of the disappointed villagers, said.

"Why can't she allow us to see David. We only hear that he is growing into a healthy baby. It's quite unfair for Madonna to treat us like that when David is our own baby," she said.

Mushenge said most of the villagers had come by foot very early hoping to see the pair.

"We just wanted to thank her for keeping our David safe," she added. The orphanage, with over 100 workers, has a nursery as well as primary and secondary schools.