Ethiopia to gain it's own sea

The Afar desert is being torn off the continent at a rate of about two centimetres each year.
A fissure, now four metres wide, formed in three weeks after a Sept. 14 earthquake in a barren region called Boina, some 1,000 kilometres northeast of the capital, Addis Ababa.
Believed similar to the basin of the Red Sea, the split is the beginning of a long process that will eventually lead to Ethiopia's eastern part tearing off from the rest of Africa - in about a million years. Scientists plan to monitor the process.

An unnamed associate states she is "fairly certain" that the armed disputes in the area will finally be brought to an end once the sea forms. She also hopes to be alive to see the monitoring process through, although she admitted this is "unlikely."