A general view of houses destroyed by shelling during intense fighting in Kamnyola on December 7, 2025. At least 20 Burundian soldiers have been killed in ongoing fighting in eastern DR Congo, military sources told AFP on Saturday, only days after a peace deal was signed in Washington. Thursday's agreement was meant to stabilise the resource-rich east but it has had little visible effect on the ground so far, in an area plagued by conflict for 30 years. Fighters from the anti-government armed group M23 are battling in South Kivu province with the Congolese army, backed by thousands of Burundian soldiers deployed alongside it. Both sides are fighting for control of the border town of Kamanyola -- where the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi meet. M23 is currently in control there.