US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries on map of Africa
The erroneous map appeared during a State Department slide presentation about Washington's funding for programmes tackling HIV at an Aids conference in Brazil on Sunday.
Nigerians might be surprised to learn they live in a landlocked country and people in Ivory Coast shocked that they are East African not West African - but that is what a map used by a US official at a recent conference showed.
This is what happens when [the State Department] fires career experts and tries to have AI conduct diplomacy," Democrat and ranking member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Jeanne Shaheen wrote on X.
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