They call this tectonic plate boundary zone the East African Rift Valley (EAR), part of the wider East African Rift System. The valley is so pronounced it’s visible from space. Once the split ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

Rift Valley Academy sits on a forested hillside at Kiambogo in Kijabe, Kiambu County, where it was founded by American missionary Charles Hurtburt. The motive was the result of a dilemma.

Speaking to DailyMail.co.uk, the academic said: "What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley." The academic ...

On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

Otieno, a Luo, was hacked to death in Molo on Saturday night, a few metres from a police station. Molo is in the restive Rift Valley region which has been the epicentre of deadly ethnic clashes since ...

As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to create new ocean floor, sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift ...