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 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 ...
Profoundly embarrassing.
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 department acknowledged the “confusion” its map caused during a presentation at a global AIDS conference in Brazil.
The U.S. State Department has apologized for using an incorrectly labeled map of Africa during a presentation at the global ...
The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...
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 ...
The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...
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