>US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries on map of Africa> Nigerians might be surprised to learn they live in a landlocked country and people in Ivory Coast shocked that they are southern African not West African - but that is what a map used by a US official at a recent conference showed.>Not only that, the cartographic malfunction included completely unrecognisable shapes of the six misidentified countries.>The flawed map appeared during a State Department slide presentation, at an Aids conference in Brazil on Sunday, about Washington's funding for programmes tackling HIV.>The State Department has described it as "an unfortunate error" caused when a team member "hurriedly altered" the slide deck before the event.>In a statement quoted by news agencies, a spokesperson added that it took "full responsibility for the confusion and misrepresentation it caused for attendees, including our African partners".>The mistake came to light after HIV/Aids expert Emily Bass shared a photograph of the slide on her Substack newsletter, prompting widespread criticism online.>The image contained an artificial intelligence watermark indicating it had been created using AI tools, an analysis by the Reuters news agency found.
