Hydro-political Discourse Analysis Of The Ethiopian And The Egyptian Government Foreign Affairs Office Press Releases On The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

The purpose of the study is to see the Hydro-political discourse of the Ethiopian and thernEgyptian Foreign Affairs Offices. The objective of the study was to critically analyze thernselected press releases of the Egyptian and the Ethiopian Foreign Affairs offices politicalrndiscourses on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The press releases/political discoursesrnwhich were taken from the Foreign Affairs Office of the two countries following the lay downrnthe corner stone of the GERD (April, 2011) till the Declaration of Principles on GERDrn(March, 2015) among Egypt, Ethiopia and the Sudan were analyzed to answer the researchrnquestions. For that reason, six relevant political discourses/press releases which werernreleased by the Egyptian Foreign Affairs Office in the time frame set had been takenrnpurposely while another six relevant texts/press releases from the Ethiopian Foreign AffairsrnOffice were taken to get a proportional number of texts for analysis. The study selected thernCritical Discourse Analysis approach as a method to answer those research questions.rnFairclough’s approach of CDA was utilized to answer the research questions. The approachrnflexibly used to have textual and analysis of the social practice. The research questions werernalso answered through the lenses of political communication and rhetoric theories. Thernanalysis revealed that the GERED was constructed and interpreted differently in the tworncountries Foreign Affairs Office press releases. The Egyptian Foreign Affairs Office pressrnreleases constructed the GERD as if it is a threat for the National security and the ‘Historicalrnright’ of the Egyptian over the river Nile. On the other hand, the Ethiopian Foreign AffairsrnOffice press releases constructed the GERD as a means to bring sustainable development inrnthe country and wouldn’t have a significant harm over other neighboring Nile basinrncountries. On the top of this, the old ‘Historical Nile water right’ discourse of the Egyptianrnhas been replaced by the upper riparian countries new discourse of ‘Equitable water share ofrnthe Nile’. The 1959 Nile water share agreement of Egypt and Sudan has faced challengesrnfrom the Cooperative Framework of Agreement which favors the equitable water utilizationrnof the Nile and was signed by six upper Nile basin states. The findings indicated that powerrnhas been shifting from the lower riparian countries to the upper Nile basin states. Thernanalysis of social practice revealed that both the Ethiopian and the Egyptian GovernmentrnForeign Affairs Office press releases are in alignment with government Foreign policyrndocuments of their respective countries.

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