The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. This valley is part of the Gregory Rift, an eastern branch of the East African Rift, which is being caused by the ...

Wildebeests and zebras are seen in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok, Kenya, Aug. 13, 2026. Home to extensive savanna ...

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This breathtaking aerial view captures a traditional Maasai village in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, surrounded by vast savannah grasslands glowing under the warm light of sunset. Circular thatched homes ...

Parts of Nakuru County are at risk of collapses and sinkholes as the Great Rift Valley's tectonic plates are shifting at an average rate of six to seven millimetres each year.

The great flowering of human evolution over the past 2 million years may have been driven not by the African savannahs, but by the lakes of that continent’s Great Rift Valley. This novel idea, ...

Loboi, Kenya – Ruth Kentyenya has just finished cutting vegetables as the lakeside evening breeze wafts over her village, Loboi, on the shores of Lake Bogoria. As she waits for her daughter to come ...

Introduction -- Facing Arabia. Afar. Harari. Rashaida. Somali -- Desert nomads. Afar -- The Abyssynians. Amhara. Oromo. Tigray -- Frontier districts. Konso. Mursi ...

IT is but rarely that a narrative of travel, however interesting it may be, and however exciting the adventures of the author may have proved, has as much attraction for naturalists and geologists as ...

The valley is the product of deep-seated geological forces which have spewed out a line of cloud-wreathed volcanoes stretching from Ethiopia to Tanzania. Their peaks provide a refuge for East Africa's ...

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from Awash Fentale, an area in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The area falls within a ...