The island nation is home to one of the most active volcanoes in the Atlantic Ocean, which rises 2,829 metres above sea level ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will eventually break apart altogether - with one US academic now theorising this could ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

Mount Nyiragongo, located in the Virunga Mountains, is one of the most active volcanoes in Africa. It's known for its fast-moving lava flows and a persistent lava lake, one of the few in the world.

Surrounded by majestic lakes and a range of dormant and active volcanoes with its rich and ... King Leopold seized a huge chunk of tropical Africa for himself and his family naming it with ...

The earthquakes have also sparked fears of volcanic eruptions because they are happening near two active volcanoes, Fentale and Dofen. The Conversation Africa asked volcano researcher Amdemichael ...

Some volcanoes threatened populations with torrents of searing lava, as the African volcano Nyiragongo did in January, 2002. But most deaths resulted from secondary causes in the wake of an ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition of magma could ...