As a result of movement from the East African Rift ... “The East African Rift system, marked by the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian plates, is the epicenter of this shift. A 35-mile rift in Ethiopia ...

Our planet is constantly changing. Millions of years ago, the impact of a large meteorite ended the lives of the dinosaurs, and ice ages, periods of rain, drought and evolution hav ...

The movement of tectonic plates has ... been separating from the African continent, even as the Somali plate drifts away from the African plate, peeling its way through the East African Plate.

The Somali Plate is slowly drifting away from the Nubian Plate, much like the ancient separation of South America and Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters reports that while the movement occurs ...

Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique will be affected by the split between the Nubian and Somali plates. The plates are diverging by 7 mm every year.

The movements of tectonic plates are more than usual and, in many cases, they are not of major importance. In addition, if there is one thing that the geographical history of the w ...

For weeks, an unpleasant dream haunted Md (short for Mohammed) Atik Ullah Khan. In his sleep, he heard machine guns and saw himself stuck in a fierce fight between a group of pirates and navy ...

In Minnesota, Muslims and Somali Americans talked politics, religion and how their votes were swayed in the 2024 election. Some showed a new affinity for the Republican Party under Donald Trump.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected Somali pirates have seized another Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa, authorities said. In a statement late Tuesday, a European naval force ...