Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

For decades, geologists have been closely monitoring developments in the East African Rift (EAR) system - a fissure, which stretches 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide along the deserts of ...

This rare, monumental event is a direct consequence of the movements of tectonic plates, which continue to separate, pulling East Africa away from the rest of the continent. The tectonic clash is ...

In 2005, a gigantic 35-mile-long crack opened like a gash in the Ethiopian desert. Thus began the East African Rift, a geological process in which the continent is slowly being torn in two. This ...

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...

The country is located in a geologically active region, the East African Rift System. But it’s rare for earthquakes to directly trigger volcanic eruptions in Ethiopia. The current episode of ...

Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological ...

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have expressed concern over the crisis rocking the party and called for resolution of the rift within its fold.

The 16-nation bloc, which includes DRC, resolved to meet with its East African counterpart — the East Africa Community — about the matter. Elias Magosi, executive secretary of the 16-nation ...