The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's been increasingly active in the past two decades, leading to speculation ...

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in th ...

as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that portions of the continent are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in ...

The East African Rift System bisects the horn of Africa—the Nubian plate to the west moving away from the Somalian plate to the east—before forking down either side of Uganda. The western rift ...

The movements of tectonic plates are more than usual and, in many cases, they are not of major importance. In addition, if there is one thing that the geographical history of the w ...

Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Africa’s budget was postponed for the first time on Wednesday as tensions inside its coalition ...

International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola reiterated the need to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity but SA ...