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 ...

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 ...

Profoundly embarrassing.

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.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State department takes 'full responsibility' after graphic placed Nigeria in the Sahara Desert and Ivory Coast on wrong side of ...

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 ...

The erroneous map, shown during a presentation on U.S.-Africa health partnerships, sparked backlash and renewed scrutiny of the Trump administration’s ...

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 ...