Madonna leaves Malawi after week's charity tour

Pop diva Madonna has left Malawi after a visit with her family, officials said today.

Madonna flew out of the southern African country on Friday.

She began a tour of the impoverished country on October 25 with her four children, including two adopted from Malawi.

While there she broke ground for her £9m (€10.1m) Raising Malawi Academy for Girls and visited the orphanage that cared for her son David before she adopted him.

Madonna’s Raising Malawi, a charity founded in 2006 when she first visited the country, helps feed, educate and provide medical care for some of Malawi’s orphans.

Malawi, a nation of 12 million, is one of the poorest countries in the world.

About 500,000 children have lost a parent to AIDS.