A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

“Our research suggests that a giant hot blob of rock from the core-mantle boundary is present beneath East Africa, it is ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

Scientists discovered a massive superplume beneath Africa’s Rift System, driving volcanic activity and potentially splitting ...

Sophisticated chemical analysis of volcanic gases from Kenya has provided the first evidence that a vast mass of deep Earth ...

Scientists have identified the cause behind the breakup of one of the largest continents on Earth, which could eventually ...

Source: Supplied. Sandile Mpanza, Head: Commercial Property Finance, Africa Region, Absa CIB. The EAPI Summit is East Africa’s premier real estate event, bringing together over 450 global ...

Getty Why is this occurring in Northern Africa, specifically? An active continental rift zone currently exists in what is called the East African Rift System, where what is known as the Somalian ...

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 the ...

A quiet and slow-moving change is unfolding beneath the surface of East Africa– one that could, over millions of years, reshape not only the continent but the global map as we know it.