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

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

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

“The African continent is undergoing a slow, monumental split due to tectonic plate movements in the Afar Triangle. A new ...

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"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

This has been caused by movements tectonic plates that are pulling away ... Already, you can see from photos that the rift runs through Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania.

In 2005, a 35-mile long fissure took place in Ethiopia's desert, known as the East African Rift. It marked the start of a long process in which the African plate is splitting into two tectonic plates ...

Most are in the Ethiopian Rift, the northern segment of the East ... is composed of solid rock and is broken into large sections called tectonic plates. These plates fit together like pieces ...