Eastern Africa is perched on the Somalia plate which has been pulling away from the rest of the continent on the Nubian plate for about 25,00,000 years, literal ground-breaking research found in 2012.
According to a 2018 report by PBS NewsHour, the East African Rift System is “evidence of the tectonic forces pulling apart the Somali and Nubian plates.” Dr. Ken Macdonald, a marine ...