As The Report reports, this is reported by The Daily Mail.
The publication notes that a crack about 56.5 km long in the Ethiopian desert appeared in 2005, but since then it has been expanding at a rate of about 1.5 cm per year.
According to new calculations by experts, the continent may split in the next one to five million years, although it was previously thought that this process would take tens of millions of years, McDonald added.
He added that a situation could occur when the waters of the Indian Ocean would flood and flood the territory of the East African Rift Valley.
MacDonald added that the division of Africa could lead to the emergence of a new continent and ocean that would be as deep as the Atlantic Ocean.
