US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries

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ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 14 pts · 3d (4 replies)

What?! No Wakanda?

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 3d (1 reply)

No Nambia either. And where's the Democratic Republic of the Covfefe?

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d

Hamberder Leone gets forgotten yet again 😔

medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d

Yeah, aren't they our trade partners any more? Who pissed off T'Challa?

the_tab_key@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Of course not, the white house has no clue what Wakanda is. Those movies have black people in them.

Same reason why the maps are fucked.

lmuel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3d (1 reply)

So the label for Namibia is malformed Ghana?

sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 2d

Ghana and half of Togo.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d

A fourth-grader would have gotten this 100% right, but our entire State Department couldn't figure it out.

Another example of MAGA's virtuosic incompetence.