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

Meet the woman leading vaccine innovation in Senegal to fight Rift Valley fever and empower Africa’s next generation of ...

Whilst vaccines exist for animals, none are commercially available for human use for the mosquito-borne virus.

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

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

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

By Gift Briton Global efforts for a Rift Valley fever (RVF) vaccine accelerate as South Africa’s Afrigen Biologics begins local development of mRNA vaccine.With no vaccine approved for human use yet, ...

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

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

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as extension continues along the rift, the rift valley will sink lower and ...

Residents of the area where Richard Otieno was killed alleged his murder was designed to ignite ethnic tensions between the Kikuyus and the Kalenjins on one hand, and the Luos and other tribes on the ...

‘What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,’ Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of ...