US map of Africa ridiculed

A US Government map of Africa mislabelled every country ⁠during a State Department presentation at a global conference 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 department's new health agreements. News24 reports that the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company did not respond to ‌a request for comment. 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 US 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. 

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