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

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Known as the East African Rift system, the crack extends over 3,500 kilometres (2,174 miles) from the Red Sea north to Mozambique in the southeast. It is a complex system of rifts, faults ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

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 ...

Lake Tanganyika, located along the East African Rift, is over 400 miles long, the deepest lake in Africa, and holds 16% of ...

"What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley," Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa ...

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." Professor Macdonald ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

Signs of this dramatic shift lie in the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the largest ... Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018) A massive crack, 50 feet deep and 65 feet wide, appeared ...