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 ...

Water is gold in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. No surprise. This is one of the hottest deserts in the world. Walking for three days near the western scarp of the Rift, Elema and I find only one ...

An enormous rift is forming in Africa ... explains the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The Afar is a land triangle at the junction of three tectonic plates: the Nubian plate ...

"The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood in over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, and that part of East Africa will become its own separate small ...