With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

As East Africa’s great lakes shrink after thousands of years, scientists find the land beneath may be pulling apart faster, ...

The land in East Africa is slowly tearing itself apart, a continental fracture that will eventually open a new ocean basin.

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below ...

Africa. This is happening along the East African Rift, a long stretch of land where the Earth’s surface is slowly pulling ...

The mountain, inside Kenya's Great Rift Valley, showed minor seismic activity in 2007-2008 and 2013, but these were not full eruptions requiring evacuation.

Africa is breaking apart along a giant crack that will form a new ocean between two large masses of land millions of years from now, the latest research shows. The split is taking place along the East ...

The eagerly anticipated “Episode 40” of the ongoing Kilauea eruption with high fountains could happen anytime between now and Saturday, according to U.S. Geological Survey scientists. Hawaiian Volcano ...

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan takes the oath of office during her inauguration in Dodoma, on November 3, 2025. [File, Standard] As 2025 ends, East Africa enters the New Year weighed down by ...

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it will withdraw its remaining forces from Yemen following an ultimatum from Saudi-backed factions, amid a rare public rift between two key U.S.

Back in April 2024 a 188-seat passenger ferry arrived at the port of Djibouti, where it was put on a trailer and dragged across a desert. After manoeuvring through dozens of crowded towns, squeezing ...