It’s called the East African Rift – a slowly-expanding plate boundary that, in the far-off future, will eventually separate Africa from its Horn. In 2009, its movement generated a series of moderate ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

This process, driven by movements along the East African Rift System, is separating Africa into two parts: the Nubian and Somalian plates. According to researchers, Africa might eventually break ...

The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...