Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest lake and accounts for 16% of the world's available freshwater. Between 2 ...

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

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

KNEC, through lawyer Geoffrey Obura, has filed a preliminary objection in a suit brought by Nakuru-based doctor Magare ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

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

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to respond to threats from U.S. counterpart Donald Trump by saying in his annual speech to the nation Thursday ...

According to the KPA, the Port of Mombasa remains a critical hub for trade in East Africa, and these promising results reflect its strategic importance in facilitating trade and connectivity across ...

The separation occurs through the East African Rift System, which is a 3,200 km long fault formed ... This Somali plate continues to move even further east, creating a giant rift valley right here.

The East African Rift system The Afar triple point combines three rifts: the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the East Africa rift. We will start with the latter, as it is the one that grabs most ...