US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
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State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    4 hours ago

    Oh yes, the country called “Ivory Coast” is a land-locked nation…

    I can’t believe nobody caught at least that.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      33 minutes ago

      The lines don’t even map to the legend properly, they have no excuses.

    • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      To be fair, it’s in French on the map, and “CÔTE D’IVOIRE” isn’t as obviously wrong if you don’t know French.

      I fully expected them to have put South Africa up north, but lucky for them they didn’t try to include it.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      With this Administration do we know it wasn’t purposeful? I can 100% imagine them all huddled around giggling to themselves as they read the map.