Most are in the Ethiopian Rift, the northern segment of the East African Rift System. An active volcano has magma stored deep within its crust that could potentially erupt in the future.

In 2005, the earth cracked open in Ethiopia. Two volcanic eruptions shook the desert, and a 35-mile-long rift opened in the land, measuring 20 feet wide in some places. Now a new study adds weight to ...

Tegenu Gossa Aredo (PhD) is a distinguished Ethiopian Pre-Historic Archaeologist, and is currently a guest researcher at the ...

Shimelis G. Raji, Vasileios Tzanakakis, Peter Dörsch, Bradyrhizobial inoculation and P application effects on haricot and mung beans in the Ethiopian Rift Valley, Plant and Soil, Vol. 442, No. 1/2 ...

In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of ...

FILE - Fano fighters walk through a ransacked building in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, Dec. 7, 2021. Violence erupted March 1, 2024, between Ethiopian government forces and members of the militia.

Ethiopia’s mass arrests show rift with former Amhara allies Once a key ally of Ethiopia’s federal government in its deadly war in the country’s northern Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara ...