Madonna is moving her newly adopted daughter into a luxury lodge in Malawi today (15.06.09).

The singer has sent a nanny and a nurse to look after toddler Mercy James while immigration paperwork is completed in the African country, allowing her to be flown to the US where she will join the rest of Madonna’s family.

Mercy was taken to the lodge in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, after the ‘Ray of Light’ singer won an appeal hearing to adopt her on Friday (12.06.09).

The singer was initially refused the right to adopt in April, on the grounds she hadn’t lived in the country for 18 months prior to the adoption - usually a pre-requisite for adoptive parents.

Once paperwork is complete Mercy will be flown to New York where she will join Madonna, 50, and her new sister Lourdes, 12, and brothers Rocco, eight and David Banda, three - who was also adopted from Malawi.

Mercy’s biological mother was a schoolgirl who died during childbirth. Her biological father James Kambewa abandoned his child and her mother before she was born, but insists he still wants to be part of her life.

He said: “Let the child go. My only plea to Madonna is that she should seriously look after the child.

“I am asking to make sure that, while the child is growing, she must be informed of me as her biological father.”

Madonna co-funds the charity Raising Malawi which supports community based organisations based in the country which provide care and support to orphans and vulnerable children.