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 ...