The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

This slow but persistent shift is tearing through East Africa, creating massive fissures and gradually weakening the landmass ...

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called ...

The type of lava erupted by Nyiragongo and many volcanoes in the East Rift zone of Africa, called alkaline ... gorging the volcano's fissures with spewing fountains of fast-moving lava.