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 ...

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

Africa is splitting into two continents due to tectonic forces reshaping the Earth beneath our feet. This video explores the ...

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

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

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

The scientists warn that this ongoing tectonic activity could eventually cause the Somali plate and parts of East Africa, including parts of Kenya, to split from the rest of continent, raising the ...

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

The East African Rift System (EARS ... including in basalts from the Afar plume in Ethiopia, and in the Western Rift Valley between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A 35-mile-long fissure is cutting through Ethiopia’s crust. Known as the East African Rift, it keeps spreading wider.

The volcanic activity and tectonic splitting of the East African Rift Valley is probably driven by activity deep within the Earth, a new study reveals, starting where the core meets the mantle.

The inaugural season of the Sunshine Development Tour, East Africa Swing, is expected to tee off with back-to-back events next month.