These images are from Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Tribes of the Great Rift Valley. The Afar people are also known as the Danakil, so named for the desolate desert triangle where they live, between ...

The Ethiopian Rift Valley Lakes are of great importance to Ethiopia's economy, as well as being essential to the survival of the local people. The Rift Valley varies mostly between 600 and 900 ...

In Kenya, rising water levels in lakes along the Great Rift Valley have forced thousands of people from their homes. It follows severe flooding after months of unusually heavy rain, which ...

The fissure appears in the East African Rift, a part of East Africa's Great Rift Valley, which runs south from Jordan to Mozambique. National Geographic explains that a rift valley is a lowland ...

The goal – as for so many expats after the Second World War – was to build up a farm, in this case near Nakuru, around 80 miles north-west of Nairobi in the Great Rift Valley. They were ...