The State Department said that it took “full responsibility” for the confusion caused and that the map was produced by a team member who hastily changed the slide deck.
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State Department Map Labels Every African Country Wrong at Conference
The State Department is having some trouble identifying states. At the annual International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this week, the U.S. State Department unveiled a map of the ...
Profoundly embarrassing.
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State Department says it made 'an unfortunate error' when it mislabeled countries on map of Africa
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 ...
A map of Africa with multiple countries incorrectly labelled was displayed by a Trump administration official during a global ...
The map was altered immediately before the presentation, resulting in the mistake, according to a department spokesperson ...
The U.S. State Department acknowledged Thursday that a map of Africa used during a presentation at an international AIDS conference this week incorrectly labeled the countries it highlighted, calling ...
The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.
A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.
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