At the same time, though Africa’s frontier economies are less vulnerable than other emerging markets to global financial turbulence, they are highly vulnerable to political turmoil closer to home. The three countries that served as pillars of regional stability for the past several years – Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa – are now too pre-occupied with political troubles of their own to provide the peacekeepers, reconstruction funds, and political pressure that often limit the damage from conflicts elsewhere in the region.
与此同时，尽管与其他新兴市场相比，非洲的前沿经济体并不如此受到全球金融动荡的影响，它们还是容易受到临近的政治动荡的影响。尼日利亚、肯尼亚和南非这三个在过去几年中成为地区稳定支柱的国家现在忙于应付自己的政治困难，无法提供限制该地区其他地方冲突而带来的破坏的维和士兵、重建基金以及政治压力。