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US government map of Africa mislabels every country
It shows Nigeria as landlocked in the Sahara Desert and relocates Mozambique to the Horn of Africa.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country
Graphic Artist: Busra Ozturk, Producer: Nurdan Erdogan Gokhan

A presentation by the US government showing a map of Africa which mislabeled every single country caused a stir among attendees at a global conference in Brazil. 

Many took screenshots and posted the map from the State Department's presentation on the new health agreements at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 26.

The map contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signalled it was made with OpenAI tools, Reuters reported.

The State Department took "full responsibility for the confusion and misrepresentation."

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