Nelleke van de Walle Project Director, Great Lakes Please submit all media inquiries to nvandewalle@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71. Nelleke van de Walle is the project director for the Great Lakes region, covering Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. She joined Crisis Group in April 2019 and is based in Nairobi. Prior to joining Crisis Group, Nelleke was a Dutch diplomat in The Hague and Kinshasa and worked for the UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO in the DRC. She was a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and worked for a major consultancy firm in Kenya. She holds master’s degrees in both History and International Relations from the University of Groningen and received a scholarship for a postgraduate course at the Clingendael Institute of International Relations. Dutch English French Swahili (basic) In The News 20 Jun 2022 The tensions between these two countries [DRC and Rwanda] could destabilise a region that’s already facing political instability. The Guardian Nelleke van de Walle Project Director, Great Lakes 1 Jun 2022 What could be challenging is if Rwanda becomes involved on the military front [in Congo’s east]. Washington Post Nelleke van de Walle Project Director, Great Lakes 16 Jul 2020 Tshisekedi has been forced to cooperate with Kabila's Common Front for Congo (FCC) coalition and they have been in a standoff ever since. Al Jazeera Nelleke van de Walle Project Director, Great Lakes 30 Jan 2020 [The Allied Democratic Forces in DR Congo] have a very brutal way of killing the civilians and they don’t differentiate. They kill women, children, men. The Irish Times Nelleke van de Walle Project Director, Great Lakes 20 Aug 2019 [In Burundi] the government is pushing back on international pressure, trying to convince international actors that everything is alright. Meanwhile, its population is su... The New Humanitarian Nelleke van de Walle Project Director, Great Lakes Latest Updates Q&A / Africa 25 August 2022 East Africa’s DR Congo Force: The Case for Caution Also available in Français Podcast / Africa 14 July 2022 End of Season Special: Ethiopia, Kenya-DRC and the Drought Podcast / Africa 13 May 2022 A Perilous Free-for-all in the Eastern DR Congo? Podcast / Africa 01 April 2021 Tshisekedi Consolidates Power in DR Congo Q&A / Africa 18 March 2021 Understanding the New U.S. Terrorism Designations in Africa Op-Ed / Africa 10 July 2019 AU Heads of State Summit needs to whip Nkurunziza back into line Load more