and towering peaks that characterize the Great Rift Valley are every bit as inspiring as their inhabitants. Here are some of my favorite vantage points. Here, four East African adventures that ...

The Afar region is home to the East African Rift Valley, a massive crack in the Earth’s surface that stretches through ...

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 ...

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

Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead when/if the eighth continent emerges around the eastern coast of Africa - ...

Since 1925 there have been numerous finds of Australopithecus fossils in East and Southern Africa, mainly based around the Great Rift Valley - a fracture in the earth's surfaces that runs 3,500 ...

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...

The ongoing insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by M23 rebels threatens to ignite renewed conflict in the ...

as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that portions of the continent are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in ...

A BBC/Animal Planet co-production, the three-part series focuses on the landscape and wildlife of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.