US State Dept. mislabels every country on Africa map

The department acknowledged the “confusion” its map caused during a presentation at a global AIDS conference in Brazil.

A US government map of Africa mislabelled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online. Reuters viewed a ‌video of the presentation given at the Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Jane

US government presents map of Africa with every country wrong  The Times

Oops! State Dept. Mislabels Every Country On A Map Of Africa At Global Conference  HuffPost

Ezra Acayan/Pool via Reuters Officials within Marco Rubio’s State Department caused major embarrassment after using a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent. The Trump administration’s error-filled map was used during a State Department presentation at

The US State Department blamed a staffer for the error amid a probe into whether it was made by AI

A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.Reuters viewed a video of the presentation given at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro

The map showed Nigeria as landlocked in the Sahara Desert, among other errors.

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference in Brazil ⁠this week, ​causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and post

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference  Reuters