The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

This video investigates the viral claim that a new ocean is forming in Africa – and finds that the story is far more real ...

The land in East Africa is slowly tearing itself apart, a continental fracture that will eventually open a new ocean basin. What had long seemed like a purely tectonic story is now being rewritten by ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water may flood it in a few million years ...

A long, low basin in eastern Africa has spent millions of years collecting some of the most important clues to human origins. Now it is offering another kind of evidence, this time from far below the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Though East Africa used to be more of a savanna than a desert, it has dried out over the millennia. With less water in the lakes, especially Lake ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

The East African Rift system represents a major zone of continental extension where the African Plate is slowly splitting into separate plates. Volcanism here is driven by upwelling mantle material ...

The East African Rift System constitutes a prime example of continental rifting, where the African Plate splits into Nubian and Somali sub-plates. This process is marked by axial rift valleys, normal ...