CNN Ebola coverage mislabels Niger as Nigeria

Africans mock news organisation after map features wrong country affected by deadly virus.

Twitter users are poking fun at CNN after the news organisation misidentified the country Niger as Nigeria on Tuesday when discussing areas affected by the Ebola virus in West Africa.

Goodluck Jonathan goes to DC to Barack Obama's Africa is a Country Party; when he comes back Nigeria is gone pic.twitter.com/mCQsBgydRw

— Africa Is a Country (@africasacountry) August 6, 2014

Dear @CNN, the area you marked "Nigeria" is actually "Niger"; Nigeria is the area below it. Get a map-reader, please! pic.twitter.com/e03Fv1pcC2

— Gimba Kakanda (@gimbakakanda) August 6, 2014