The East African Rift System, a vast network of faults stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, is at the heart of this geological upheaval. Recent studies reveal that the region’s tectonic ...

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

The East African Rift is silently tearing the continent apart, paving the way for a new ocean and reshaping Earth's geography in real-time. A study by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology reveals ...

AS geopolitical risks escalate, East African countries have been challenged to urgently bolster their energy sectors to ...

It’s called the East African Rift – a slowly-expanding plate boundary that, in the far-off future, will eventually separate Africa from its Horn. In 2009, its movement generated a series of moderate ...

TANZANIA aims to start a licensing round for dozens of oil and gas exploration blocks in May, the first in more than a decade ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy, will one day divide the continent into two separate landmasses. While this ...

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split – and ultimately create a new ocean – along the great East African Rift Valley. Gemechu ...

Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's interior plates, e.g., in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande Rift in ...

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split – and ultimately create a new ocean – along the great East African Rift Valley.