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It's not every day you hear about a new sea forming (in an African desert, no less) but apparently that's exactly what's happening at the site of a 35-mile long volcanic rift in the Ethiopian desert. The rift opened up in 2005 when Mount Dabbahu erupted for the first time in recorded history and within three weeks it had already spread to 25' wide.
Heading towards the Red Sea, it could eventually split off Eritrea, Djibouti and part of Ethiopia from the rest of the continent.