How did this land of plenty descend into a perilous free-for-all? Dig deep into its history and it turns out the Albertine Rift has been shaped by mistaken ideas about its ethnic identities.

In some places the canyon, called the Great Global Rift, came very close to land. The rift appeared to be breaks in the earth's crust, but perfectly fitted breaks, like joints made by a carpenter.

Restoring Ukraine’s borders is “not an easy thing to do,” he said, describing Russian-occupied territory as land that Kyiv has ”lost.” “We’re negotiating everything and everything is ...