The State Department said that it took “full responsibility” for the confusion caused and that the map was produced by a team ...

Profoundly embarrassing.

A map of Africa with multiple countries incorrectly labelled was displayed by a Trump administration official during a global ...

The US State Department acknowledged ‘an unfortunate error’ after the highly inaccurate African map caused a stir.

A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.

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Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had ...

The US State Department presented a map of Africa that mislabeled every nation on the continent that it attempted to ...

The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that ...

Among some of the errors on the slide, coastal Nigeria is landlocked, Mozambique has been transported from southern Africa to the Horn of Africa, and Ivory Coast has shifted from West Africa across ...

The map was altered immediately before the presentation, resulting in the mistake, according to a department spokesperson ...

A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in ...