It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.

There is a clear rift between Putin and Medvedev. Medvedev is far from being Putin s puppet.

Likewise, the rift between the eurozone s 17 members and the other ten EU countries is widening.

The Massachusetts electoral debacle only highlighted the growing rift between the president s agenda and popular sensibilities.

Rift and Mastery

The sectarian rift between the Islamic Sunni and Shia sects is haunting Egyptian blogger D B Shobrawy's dreams.

It could create a rift between Europe and the US, which hopes to avoid isolation in the vote.

This move has caused a huge discontent and rift between the official opposition and the independent Youth movement.

At first sight, this might seem like another dispute between economists and non economists, but the rift runs within, rather than between, disciplinary boundaries.

These statistics emphasize national government corruption, foreign economic interference in the country, and the rift between the rich and poor.

The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley.

Due to the rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, Gazans were prevented from going on the Hajj pilgrimage this year.

PCMCIA and JEIDA worked to solve this rift between the two competing standards, and merged into JEIDA 4.1 or PCMCIA 2.0 in 1991.

This eventually created a significant rift between the lower social classes and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth.

Between the sixth and seventh rounds, the international community made several efforts to coordinate its actions and to mend the rift within SLM.

It is a rift valley lake lying in the Lake Mweru Luapula graben, which is a branch of the East African Rift.

The rift between the Gulf monarchies is becoming ever clearer, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates quick to finance the post coup government.

The discussion continues on Kuwaiti blog Five One Eight about the Bu Qutada wa Bu Nabeel series which created a rift between Kuwait and Morocco.

They could use the time, with international help, to build up effective state institutions, address economic development, and heal the rift between West Bank and Gaza.

So, for years Agnes walked through the Rift valley.

In the former case, the transatlantic rift will deepen dramatically.

So I do not believe that a lasting rift looms.

In both episodes, a missing handshake symbolized the countries persistent rift.

The Bush administration made numerous foreign policy blunders with far reaching consequences. But Bush neither invented American unilateralism nor triggered the transatlantic rift between the United States and Europe.

Indeed, the seizure of Shalit deepened the rift between Hamas and Fatah, which believes that the abduction was staged in order to sabotage discussions about a national unity government.

But, as the rift between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad has grown, support for the president has declined significantly, with even state run media referring to Ahmadinejad s loyalists as a deviation circle.

Another such election in the near future, including the one set for January, is unlikely to occur, mainly owing to the continuing rift between the PLO and Hamas, which controls Gaza.

These are camels moving across the Rift Valley in Africa, photographed by Chris Johns.

The western shore of the lake in DR Congo exhibits the steep escarpment typical of a rift valley lake, rising to the Kundelungu Mountains beyond, but the rift valley escarpment is less pronounced on the eastern shore.

The rift reflects not only ideological differences, but also disagreement about the objective of regime change.

Abbas s withdrawal merely confirms the obvious. Another such election in the near future, including the one set for January, is unlikely to occur, mainly owing to the continuing rift between the PLO and Hamas, which controls Gaza.

In light of these developments, does it still make sense to speak of the West ? I believe it does, more than ever, because the rift between Europe and America leaves both sides substantially weaker in global terms.

In light of these developments, does it still make sense to speak of the West ? I believe it does, more than ever, because the rift between Europe and America leaves both sides substantially weaker in global terms.

Mount Kenya is a stratovolcano created approximately 3 million years after the opening of the East African rift.

The rift between efforts to achieve the aims of the Millennium Development Goals and those of the broader commitments made at the World Summit for Social Development is apparent, making it more difficult to focus on a people centred approach.

Thus, the Beqaa Valley is part of the Great Rift system, which stretches from southern Turkey to Mozambique in Africa.

Although there has been little progress on any of the issues raised in the MLC ultimatum, the rift between Vice President Bemba and President Kabila has subsided, thus allowing for the resumption of meetings of the Council of Ministers and the espace présidentiel.

Experts say we've already seen examples of this impact, from epidemics of cholera in Bangladesh to Rift Valley fever in Africa.

The Committee further noted that remote sensing technology was used for tracking Rift Valley fever, dengue fever and other infectious diseases.

But Egypt s government is angry with Hamas for opposing the formation of a coalition government. Indeed, the seizure of Shalit deepened the rift between Hamas and Fatah, which believes that the abduction was staged in order to sabotage discussions about a national unity government.

Inter marriages are a good way to bridge the sectarian rift in our society and I have always been all for it.

Natural history The geological origins of the Zarqa river are about 30 million years old, when the Jordan Rift Valley was formed.

Lukashenko, sensing the danger, has been making overtures to the EU to counter what he sees as a growing rift with the Kremlin.

It is located in the Echo Crater of the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, New Zealand and its acidic water maintains a temperature of .

But no one had actually gone down into the actual site of the boundary of creation as we call it into the Rift Valley until a group of seven of us crawled in our little submarines in the summer of 1973, 1974 and were the first human beings to enter the Great Rift Valley.