Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

Deep beneath East Africa, scientists have discovered powerful forces at work that could eventually split the continent in two ...

How the 'Indian Ocean Dipole' Climate Phenomenon Has Shaped East Africa's Severe Drought Published Mar 13, 2017 at 9:12 AM EDT Updated Mar 18, 2017 at 9:16 AM EDT ...

Stock image showing the world's tectonic plates. Geologists forecast that the East African Rift in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, among other African countries, will split open, forming a new ocean.

A plague of locusts has descended on East Africa. Climate change may be to blame. Human activity has made an ocean circulation pattern misbehave—triggering a weird confluence of events that has ...

East Africa has limited impact on the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), and on the global economy as a whole. Sub-Saharan Africa is an area where most quantitative indicators of national progress show that ...

The Indian Ocean world is a term used to describe the very long-lasting connections among the coasts of east Africa, the Arab coasts, and South and East Asia. These connections were made possible ...

08/22/2019 August 22, 2019. Over several centuries countless East Africans were sold as slaves by Muslim Arabs to the Middle East and other places via the Sahara desert and Indian Ocean.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

FILE - A worker installs names of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the wall of the Tsunami Museum ahead of the 10th anniversary of the killer waves in Banda Aceh, Aceh province ...