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US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries on map of Africa

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Published by BBC News By https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews · 31 July 2026 at 14:30

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A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.

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