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 department acknowledged the “confusion” its map caused during a presentation at a global AIDS conference in Brazil.
Profoundly embarrassing.
A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.
An analysis revealed that the image was generated with AI. Here’s how to avoid the same embarrassing fate.
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 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 ...
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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