The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

AFRICA is splitting apart – meaning the continent will form two separate land masses with an ocean in between in several ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

Scientists' analysis of volcanic gases from Kenya have provided possible evidence of worrying activity beneath East Africa ...

“Our research suggests that a giant hot blob of rock from the core-mantle boundary is present beneath East Africa, it is ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that East Africa is splitting faster than previously believed due to a fiery upwelling of ...

Stock image of the Rift Valley in Ethiopia. The East African Rift formed 30 million years ago. Stock image of the Rift Valley in Ethiopia. The East African Rift formed 30 million years ago.

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

Speaking to DailyMail.co.uk, the academic said: "What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley." The academic ...

The East African Rift Valley sits between the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Within it lie a series of freshwater and alkaline lakes organised like a string of pearls. The Kenyan lakes ...