The rift system in East Africa is a key factor in increasing aridity and long dry periods in the region, a new study published in Nature finds. The research team, from the Climate Research Lab, School ...

The Earth's tectonic plates have always slowly shifted over billions of years of our planet's history, carving out seas and pressing mountain ranges into existence. One change that is expected in the ...

Scientists predict tectonic forces in East Africa will split the continent and form a new ocean, transforming economies and ...

Conflicts in Ethiopia and Ukraine are exacerbating food scarcity in a region where millions of people already suffer from severe hunger. There are multiple factors contributing in a cascading manner ...

When President Yoweri Museveni warned recently that future wars might erupt over access to the sea, the remark raced through East Africa's political bloodstream with that familiar cocktail of ...