The translation file appears to have a missing or malformed header

It seems like my installation doesn't allow my .po file to be imported.

Everytime I try to import a .po file I'm getting the following error:

The translation file [some_language.po] appears to have a missing or malformed header.

What kind of header is it referring to? My .po file simply consists of strings, nothing more:

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