Madonna is forging ahead with plans to adopt a second African toddler.

The Material Girl and husband Guy Ritchie are on “on the cusp” of completing the process to adopt three-year-old Mercy James, Malawian officials told The Sun on Wednesday.

“Madonna’s representatives have been visiting the girl. The adoption is now advanced all the government is waiting for is Madonna to forward the petition of adoption formalities,” Malawi adoption minister, Penstone Klembe, says.

“Then Mercy will be able to leave the country for a new life.”

Madonna and Guy began the process to adopt son David Banda from Malawi in 2006.

“The adoption process in Malawi is so long and stressful that all the legal wrangling put a huge strain on their marriage,” a friend of the star revealed to the tab.

“They dropped proceedings to pour all their energies into each other. But Madonna now feels they are stable enough to press ahead with the adoption again.”