The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden will soon welcome a new ocean and are also expected to merge with it, and it will create a rare tri-junction of large water bodies, As Africa is splitting into two separate landmasses. The process is very slow, but it will be reshaping and giving a new geography to Earth after millions of years.
The phenomenon is taking place along the East African Rift, which runs from Ethiopia's Afar region through Kenya to Tanzania and Mozambique in the southeast. Beneath this area, the African tectonic plate is divided into two parts—the Nubian block to the west and the Somali block to the east.
This happens when magma from beneath the earth rises due to fractures that occur due to earthquakes; as magma pushes upward, it creates artificial watercourses that move surrounding rocks aside, deepening the fault. Over millions of years, seawater will eventually flood in, which forms a new basin; scientists estimate this could take around 5 to 10 million years.
SOURCE: THEINFORMLY

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