What might be in danger because of the crisis in Kenya according to the news item?

The violence this week in Kenya has thrown the usually peaceful country into crisis.(26)Its economic and democratic progress may be in danger.
    The crisis began Sunday after election officials declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner of a second term. On Friday Kenya’s main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement, called for a new election.
    Its candidate in the December twenty-seventh election, Raila Odinga, held the lead in early vote totals. He says the narrow victory for Mister Kibaki was the result of cheating.
    (27)More than three hundred people have been killed in Nairobi, the Rift Valley and Mombasa. The violence has involved fighting between police and protesters and between ethnic groups.