Professor Atalay Ayele is the Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Space Science and Astronomy at Addis Ababa University.

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million ...

Ethiopia was rocked by a record 10 earthquakes in just 24 hours this week, raising fears of recurring tremors in recent weeks ...

A Travel + Leisure A-List advisor dishes on how to go beyond wildlife spotting in East Africa. Kenya and Tanzania, the East ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Ethiopia, the U.S. Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences said on Saturday. The quake's epicenter was located 88 miles (142 km) east of ...

This geological shift, mirroring the breakup of Pangea, will flood the East African Rift Valley, creating new coastlines and reshaping the continent over millions of years. GPS technology allows ...

Ethiopia lies along the Great Rift Valley– a part of the East African Rift System. This system is one of the most extensive rifts on Earth’s surface, and extends from Jordan in southwestern Asia ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which ...

Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...

The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift Valley, a part of the world often called "the cradle of humankind." So many of the oldest clues about humanity's earliest days have ...