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July 30 (Reuters) – A U.S. government map of \u2060Africa \u2060mislabeled every country during a State \u2060Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a \u200bstir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.<\/p>\n

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Reuters viewed a video of the presentation given at the \u200cAIDS 2026 conference in Rio de \u200cJaneiro, which shows the errant map displayed halfway during a presentation about the State Department’s new \u2060health agreements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A \u2060Reuters analysis found the\u00a0image of the map included in the presentation contained an \u200bartificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The State Department said it took “full responsibility” for the confusion caused and that the map had been produced \u200bby a team member who hastily changed the slide deck before the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The map showed Nigeria, \u2060where \u2060the U.S. currently has several \u2060hundred troops deployed, \u200bas landlocked in the Sahara Desert. Mozambique, which is in southeastern Africa, was relocated to the \u200bHorn of Africa, while Ivory \u2060Coast in West Africa was placed on the other side of the continent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Screenshots of the map first appeared in a Substack post by AIDS expert Emily Bass and were widely shared on LinkedIn, with one post garnering some 40,000 views.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Whoever created and approved this slide did not know where countries in Africa \u2060are and did not care to check their work,” wrote Matt Petit, who focuses on \u2060AI and geopolitics at the Atlantic Council, in the post.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, the State Department said: “We take full responsibility for the confusion and misrepresentation it caused for attendees, including our African partners.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The speaker at the conference was Jeff Graham, the top U.S. health envoy who oversees the initiative known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS\u00a0Relief, or PEPFAR. He did not reply to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The State Department said the discussions at the conference were “substantive and constructive” despite the map and that it remains \u2060committed to fighting AIDS with real results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration’s decision last year to pause funding pending a review disrupted aid programs worldwide but PEPFAR’s core work such as the provision of life-saving drugs has largely resumed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The U.S. is scaling back other areas of its spending including \u200bon prevention and surveillance, and plans to fully phase out the program in \u200bSouth Africa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Jessica DonatiEditing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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