In September-October 2005, a dramatic geological event unfolded in the Ethiopian Desert ... million years for the Earth’s crust in the rift valley to thin from “40 to 35 kilometers (25 ...

Annual precipitation is heaviest in the southwest, scant in the Great Rift Valley and the Ogaden, and negligible in the Denakil Depression. More about the >Geography of Ethiopia.

Homes thatched with stolen grass were burned. Small farms hug the slopes of the Great Rift Valley and cover much of the Ethiopian Highlands, fragmenting geladas’ native grasslands. Many ...

The Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF), a pioneering diaspora-driven organization, is making waves as it expands its ...

have urged East African countries to create awareness and increase preparedness due to a potential outbreak of the Rift Valley Fever. The RVF warnings are predicted to be on the rise following the ...

The Somali tectonic plate in eastern Africa is “also stretching away from the Nubian plate, peeling apart along the East African Rift Valley, which extends through Ethiopia and Kenya”.

Signs of this dramatic shift lie in the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the largest rifts on Earth, stretching across Ethiopia ... Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018) A massive crack ...