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 ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

With a history stretching back over 11,000 years, this city ranks among the oldest continuously inhabited in the world. It ...

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

Getty Why is this occurring in Northern Africa, specifically? An active continental rift zone currently exists in what is called the East African Rift System, where what is known as the Somalian ...

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, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

“For example, the crack could be the result of the erosion of soft soils infilling an old rift-related fault,” the geologist added. The process of the great continent of Africa losing its ...

Experts say in about 50 million years, the African continent will split into two with the Somali tectonic plate which covers the Great Rift Valley — running from the Horn of Africa to Mozambique ...