Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest lake and accounts for 16% of the world's available freshwater. Between 2 ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

Thus began the East African Rift ... like the ancient rift that split South America apart from Africa, eventually giving rise to the Atlantic Ocean. As the rift increases, the Red Sea and the Gulf of ...

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

By studying 46 Yemeni genomes, the research reveals significant genetic influences from East Africa, the Levant, and Arabia. Maternal DNA shows a marked African presence, with one-third of ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — 8 News Now has previously covered the influx of homeless encampments in an east Las Vegas valley community. Two years later residents are saying that the issue is once again growing ...

Small arms and heavy weapons were also seized during operations in eight East African countries, the international police agency said. “In Kenya, police arrested 17 people, including two ...

"It could happen that the waters of the Indian Ocean will come and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley," Ken McDonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, comments ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, who chairs the East African Community, said the bloc will convene an extraordinary summit within 48 hours to tackle the growing conflict in the Democratic Republic ...

The African rift valley is a sight to behold ... We can try to piece together the formation of Afar and its three rifts from this volcanic history. We have seen that the East African Rift system has ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, chair of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit, has called for an emergency meeting to address the escalating war in eastern Congo. “Noting the ...