Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

South Africa plans a complex network of routes from the Indian Ocean northwest and north into Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia, culminating, ... Read more: Africa's New Map | Stratfor.

How Africa’s Landscape Will Change. The formation of a new ocean will redraw Africa’s map, reshaping not only the land but ...

A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

Africa’s elevation map. NASA. Nestled between each side of the rift, the Victoria microplate, the largest of its kind on Earth, has been rotating counter-clockwise for the last two years.

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

A quiet and slow-moving change is unfolding beneath the surface of East Africa– one that could, over millions of years, reshape not only the continent but the global map as we know it.

Some 25,000 herders fled the first major new “dike intrusion” to hit land since the 1970s, according to one paper. Scientists rushed to the rift, hoping to study a process that typically occurs ...

New satellite data support the prediction that Africa is going to eventually split into two continents, ... [shaded area in the map] and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.