{"id":89126,"date":"2026-05-13T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89126"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:46:45","slug":"rift-forming-beneath-zambia-could-tear-africa-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/13\/rift-forming-beneath-zambia-could-tear-africa-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Rift forming beneath Zambia could tear Africa apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA234pxn.img?w=534&amp;h=342&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Map of extensional zone within the Central African Plateau of Zambia (Frontiers in Earth Science 2026)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new rift forming beneath\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zambia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Zambia<\/a>\u00a0could eventually split the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/africa-dakar-african-union-greenland-senegal-b2812483.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">African continent\u00a0<\/a>apart, a new analysis of geothermal springs indicates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/rift-forming-beneath-zambia-could-tear-africa-apart\/ar-AA234s4l?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a049ba11f6e4af5aa721daedefbc7b7&amp;ei=28\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A new rift forming beneath\u00a0Zambia\u00a0could eventually split the\u00a0African continent\u00a0apart, a new analysis of geothermal springs indicates. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Africa-spliting.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89128,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89126\/revisions\/89128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}