The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's ...

Analysis - A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from Awash Fentale, an area in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The area ...

A series of earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region has sparked concerns over potential volcanic eruptions, displacing ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest lake and accounts for 16% of the world's available freshwater. Between 2 ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

"Our geothermal production in the Rift Valley has made Kenya a global leader in renewable energy," he said, adding that major investments in solar and wind energy, particularly in Turkana -- home to ...

The non-acidic nature of the Rift Valley soil and sediment has made it ... on how Africans developed stone tool technology Listen to South African President Thabo Mbeki highlighting the crucial ...