While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over ...

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey ...

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

The explosions in December led to the exodus of the estimated 10,000 community members living in Seganto. Today, Seganto remains empty. Hassan Kamil Konte, a community elder, fled and now lives in a ...

Much of the Ethiopian landmass is part of the East African Rift Plateau. Ethiopia has a general elevation ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 meters above sea level. Interspersed on the landscape are ...

It is also infuriated by reports that in return for use of a port, Ethiopia would become the first country to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign nation. Both the African Union (AU) and the US ...

Türkiye hails deepening relations with Ethiopia and Somalia as ruling parties of the three nations ink political deals, ...

Earthquakes and volcanic activity are both common in Ethiopia. The country is located in a geologically active region, the East African Rift System. But it’s rare for earthquakes to directly ...