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 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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.

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 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 ...