Rift forming beneath Zambia could tear Africa apart - Researchers say Kafue Rift could become new tectonic plate boundary and lead to break-up of sub-Saharan Africa ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the ...

A geological upheaval of unprecedented magnitude is underway in East Africa: the gradual formation of a new ocean. This phenomenon, closely monitored by scientists, could ultimately divide the African ...

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 ...

South African photographer Shem Compion remembers precisely when his love affair with the Great Rift Valley began. In 2002, in his twenties and in search of adventure, Compion saved what he could, ...