A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continents gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...

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

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

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

That could have important implications for Africa. Although the continent has been diversifying its global partnerships, it ...

Then in 2018, Kenya experienced another fissure along the rift. Why is the African continent dividing and splitting? The Rift’s Scientific Basis What is causing this divide is what we call a ...

While cutting aid to the continent’s largest democracy, he invites Afrikaners to America as refugees.

But sometime in the very distant future, there may be a new guest: a sixth ocean. As a result of movement from the East ...

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 ...

The continent's oldest independent country is Ethiopia, which apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, has ...