A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continents gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Pastoralists displaced by recurring earthquakes in the Awash Fentale district of the Afar region and sheltering at the Daido site in Amibara district have refused government attempts to relocate them, ...

Explosive confessions from an Eritrean recruit, captured by Yemen’s National Resistance forces, have unmasked an alleged ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Lying deep in the African desert sits the colourful and supersaturated hot springs of the world's 'hottest' town.

The East African Rift threatens to split the massive contient into two plates in the distant future, though geological events ...

Following the designation of the original evacuation sites--where households displaced by recent seismic activity in the Afar ...

Scientists using GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying Africa are separating, specifically in the region known at Afar, which includes northern Ethiopia ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

President Donald Trump on Friday advocated taking a "hard stance" on Gaza, the Palestinian enclave for which he has proposed a U.S. takeover and where a fragile ceasefire between Israel and ...