The Somali plate is moving away from the Nubian plate, pulling apart the crust of the Earth. This activity will ultimately generate a new ocean basin as the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden submerges the ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Discussions focused on improving Somalia’s fisheries governance, enforcing legislation and prosecuting alleged offenders. In 2021, Planet Tracker warned that without urgent action, tuna stocks could ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

the Somali plate, away from another, the larger Nubian plate. Scientists believe that in about 5 to 10 million years the split will be complete, leading to a new ocean. The process is remarkably like ...

Mogadishu, Somalia — The Security forces in Mogadishu ... which lies on the side of the Indian Ocean. Despite these inconveniences, the city has seen a notable reduction in bombings and attacks ...

After a year of spiralling tensions, Ethiopians and Somalis are talking again: on 11 January, Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh ... to maritime routes in the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, ...

The longstanding European Union (EU) naval operation in the eastern Indian Ocean is all hands on deck as it observes possible ...

A continuous body of water encircling Earth, the World/Global Ocean is divided into five main ... while the Nubian and Somali plates are separating more slowly, at half an inch to 0.2 inches ...

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as ...