United States officials attending a major health conference in Brazil mislabeled the African countries they showed on a map, causing an online stir and a subsequent ...

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The US State Department on Thursday said its use of a map that incorrectly labeled all the countries it identified on a map of Africa at an international conference this week was “an unfortunate error ...

When a U.S. government map wrongly labelled every African country, it underscored how maps have traditionally underestimated ...

Profoundly embarrassing.

Four of the six African countries highlighted - Nigeria, Mozambique, Ivory Coast and Malawi - are all incorrectly positioned. Uganda is roughly in the right place but is misshapen and Cameroon is ...

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 ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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

The U.S. State Department says they take "full responsibility" for misidentifying African countries on a map displayed at the AIDS 2026 conference.