A U.S. 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

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 ...

A map meant to support a US presentation on global health instead turned into a geography lesson gone wrong. During this week's AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, a State Department slide showed ...

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 State Department said a map that mislabeled African countries during a Rio de Janeiro HIV conference was an unfortunate error, raising questions about overs ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screen shows a US government map of Africa with mislabeled countries during a State Department presentation at a global ...