A huge crack has appeared in Africa and experts have said that it will lead to the world gaining another ocean.
It is not known who carried out the attack, but the Ethiopian government has launched an investigation, the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza reports. The Afar region, which straddles the border between ...
Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist ...
In East Africa's dry Afar region, the meeting point of three tectonic plates had been slowly drifting apart, creating a ...
In tens of millions of years, hundreds of miles of this rift could be covered in water, this ocean has already been named the Afar. Importance: Witnessing the birth of a new ocean. Dive category ...
In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia watched in amazement as ... The Afar depression and the entire Great Rift Valley will cradle a new sea that connects the Red Sea to the Indian ...