Developmental Assistance Should Be Prioritized Over Military Aid in the Sahel Region of Africa

I will start by definition of terms which will aid me into my arguments. Developmental: WebImagesNews de""vel""op""men""tal - /di"0"5vel"0"5p"0"4mentl/ adjective 1. concerned with the development of someone or something. de""vel""op""men""tal - /di"0"5vel"0"5p"0"4mentl/ adjective 1. concerned with the development of someone or something. ASSISTANCE:as""sis""tance - /"0"5"0"4sist"0"5ns/ noun 1. the provision of money, resources, or information to help someone. PRIOTIZED:pri""or""i""tize - /pr"""0"4"0"0r"0"5"0"5t""z,"0"4pr"""0"5r"0"5-/ verb 1. designate or treat (something) as more important than other things. MILITARY AID:I GO BY MY ADVERSARY'S EXPLANATION. NOTE: I WILL POST MY ARGUMENT AND REBUT SOME OF MY Adversary's claims. REBUTTALS MY ADVERSARY SAID, 'we would like to offer the following framework on which the round should be judged on: Based on our definitions of the prioritized and important, this round should be weighed on lives - the side that saves the most lives in the Sahel should win the debate.' I will be practicall and logical here. If we are to check the one that will save life, I think I have already won the debate because based on the motion, am arguing that developmental assistance should be priotized over military aid. So if during the military incursion into politics, makes the world or country unstable, don't you think that people and lives will be saved if there is help either from the world power or other country that wants to offer help and save lives?. If we are to focus on curbing the stability of military incursion in sahel regions of Africa, before developmental assistance, people will die of disease, hunger strike and some might be victims of all this body diseases and malnutrition. But if developmental assistance is to be priotized over military aid, all this problems will be reduced at it's lowest minimal. Am not saying that military incursion should not be curb webbed, but what am saying is that developmental assistance should come first. My adversary also said, Military Aid is a Prerequisite to Stability Subpoint A: Military aid is required for developmental assistance to be successful The situation in the Sahel is very unstable, and terrorist groups need to be pushed out before developmental assistance can be provided.' Let me start by saying that am in Nigeria currently, and Nigeria is one of the country the sahel region. Though they are having this Boko haram crisis like bombing. But if we check the population of that multi- ethnic state, we will find out that without the developmental assistance, that over 67percent of the population will be reducing per 2years. The question is this, what is the probability that this military problems will be solved on time? Assuming this military problem should last for 2years, it then means that the people leaving in that particular state will have to suffer and die before the problems will be solved. Let me ask another question, who will fight this military might? IS it not the people? Assuming food is not there to feed the people win will help protest against this bad military, as you rightly suggested, how will they have the strenght to do that?. My adversary also said: According to data from the European Union, if a region is not stable, developmental assistance will be about 2% effective because it will not be able to be delivered and implemented properly. I will first of all say, that source is lagging in my opponent's arguments. Now to address that argument, I will say that in Nigeria, despite all the havocs, the developmental assistance is still at its greatest level. Ranging from the vision 20 20 by Goodluck Jonathan. The foreign investors are increasing and the gross domestic product, are equally boosting. So why that argument? If anything should be done, developmental assistance should be considered first . My adversary also said, : Sending Developmental Assistance to Corrupt States is Risky. Now my adversary is trying to go out of the debate topic. Because there is no how corrupt nation relates to terrorist attacks. Now corrupt nations might consists of politicians win embezzle public funds, falsification of certificates,bribery and rest. This has nothing to do with the motion at hand. I will produce more arguments in the next round because the amount of words selected for each round of this debate is short. abcnews.go.com>Home>Topics>News>World. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_aid. www.globalissues.org>Home>Issues>Articles.