This commerce reinforced pre-existing ties based on ethnicity, kinship and colonial structures between the Kivu regions and neighbouring States such as Burundi and Rwanda, as well as Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania.
这种营商加强了基伍区与卢旺达和布隆迪以及乌干达、肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚等邻国之间早已存在的、以族裔、宗族和殖民主义结构为基础的联系。