Experts react on possible split of Africa into two continents

New ocean may arise as Africa continues to split into two parts, say scientists. PHOTO| COURTESY

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania could be divided into two, with each half belonging to a separate continent, if scientists’ long-term prediction that Africa will split in two comes to pass.

Scientists have long predicted and warned that Africa is set to split in two, a move that they say will form a new continent with Somalia and half of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. This would also form the Earth’s sixth ocean, and countries along the southeastern coast would become one single giant island, creating an entirely new sea from Ethiopia to Mozambique.