US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
By: Jessica Donati/Reuters
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
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 screenshots and posted them online.
Reuters viewed a video of the presentation given at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, which shows the errant map displayed halfway during a presentation about the State Department's new health agreements.
A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report.
The State Department said it took "full responsibility" for the confusion caused and that the map had been produced by a team member who hastily changed the slide deck before the event.
The map showed Nigeria, where the U.S. currently has several hundred troops deployed, as landlocked in the Sahara Desert. Mozambique, which is in southeastern Africa, was relocated to the Horn of Africa, while Ivory Coast in West Africa was placed on the other side of the continent.
Screenshots of the map first appeared in a Substack post by AIDS expert Emily Bass and were widely shared on LinkedIn, with one post garnering some 40,000 views. "Whoever created and approved this slide did not …
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The legacy of the Trumpist regime.
the current trump administration is the epitome of incompetence ...
Grossly incompetent.
Morning...ohhhh Crikey..
Perhaps pictures may help the geographically challenged over there in Government Departments..
Please note... the big sand bar in the Southern Hemisphere is Aust..ra..lia and not Aust..ria which is in the Northern Hemisphere in case you decide to bomb it...
Geez you mob are a worry...
Is there anyone in that administration with at least 1/2 a working brain cell?
Evening...that would be a big fat no..
Makes you wonder if they even know where you mob are on the map..
they only know the names of the white xtian countries ...
Morning...yawn..to be honest I even doubt that..
It really is quite worrying when people in supposed high positions in government can get things so dramatically wrong..
It's makes you wonder, are they..
1 naturally stupid
2 uneducated
3 nieve
4 just plain dumb
Please select one or all of above..
Now brekkie, what will I have?....😁
You're assuming that the entire State Department is replaced when a new president is elected. Most of the people were there before Trump and will be there after.
It looks like AI just transposed countries over the African land mass in descending order as to how much each received, granted AI messed up the borders also, but it was up to the staffer doing it to fact check everything, but in a rush let it go, or......
So how is this the administrations doing? Not everyone in the State Department is friends with Trump and this could've been a way for them to get Trump ridiculed again.
stop defending this clueless bunch of no nothings
vegemite on a scone?
They don't have maps at the State Department? You can't even just Google "map of Africa?"
Still, it's hard to believe even AI would fumble this so badly.
as if that would help the maga rent-boy SoS ...
Two funny!
I expect we will soon hear that if we werent wasting money on AIDS treatment and prevention no one would have heard or cared about this.