The tsunami, generated by a powerful earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, devastated the Indian Ocean region, including East Africa. The impact was catastrophic: 228,000 lives were lost, ...
What is interesting is that the Indian Ocean by itself is a unifying factor across vast regions. From East Africa to Southeast Asia, including different parts of India, there exists a shared history.
The East African Rift System is a crack in the Earth's crust stretching over 3,000 kilometres from Ethiopia to the southern reaches of East Africa. East African Rift may form a new ocean.
An artificial rendering of the Albertine Rift, which forms the western branch of the East African Rift. Credit: Christoph Hormann / CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers have discovered a major shift happening in ...
Cyclone Chido caused extensive damage on the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, leaving several ... as the storm roared toward the east coast of Africa. French Interior Minister ...