Absent women in Lima working with Zambian neighbour (6)
I believe the answer is:
malawi
'zambian neighbour' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.
'absent women in lima working' is the wordplay.
'absent women' becomes 'aw' (this might be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'working' is an anagram indicator.
'lima' anagrammed gives 'mali'.
'aw' put into 'mali' is 'MALAWI'.
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for malawi that I've seen before include "It was called Nyasaland" , "It was Nyasaland under Britain" , "African country, capital Lilongwe" , "Country formerly known as Nyasaland" , "East African country" .)