Not even Facebook knows that historic maps of Africa once referred to the ocean off its west coast as the Ethiopian Ocean, even though Ethiopia is on the continent's eastern side.

“The Atlantic Ocean was known as Ethiopian Ocean until the 19th century,” reads text on a graphic posted on Instagram last month. It includes what looks like a part of an old map showing the western ...

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...