A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually ...

allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area and making the easternmost corner of Africa (the Horn of Africa) a large island," federal scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey said. Research ...

Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.

"Geologists believe that, if spreading continues, the three plates that meet at the edge of the present-day African continent will separate completely, allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area and ...