The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

Scientists' analysis of volcanic gases from Kenya have provided possible evidence of worrying activity beneath East Africa ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that East Africa is splitting faster than previously believed due to a fiery upwelling of ...

The scientists warn that this ongoing tectonic activity could eventually cause the Somali plate and parts of East Africa, including parts of Kenya, to split from the rest of continent, raising the ...

A 35-mile-long fissure is cutting through Ethiopia’s crust. Known as the East African Rift, it keeps spreading wider.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System ... the North American plate, which is sliding south ...

The East African Rift System ... Researcher Stephen Hicks attributes a significant crack in Kenya’s Rift Valley to soil erosion from recent rainfall, suggesting it may not be directly linked ...

The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift Valley, a part of the world often called "the cradle of humankind." So many of the oldest clues about humanity's earliest days have ...