The 29-year-old was a career foreign service officer who worked with Citizenship and Immigration Canada in the country’s Nairobi embassy. She is the first Canadian diplomat killed overseas since 2006.

“Annemarie’s death inflicts a deep wound on the foreign service community. Today we grieve the loss not only of a warm and intelligent friend and colleague, but a lifetime’s potential tragically unfilled,” said time Edwards, president of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers.

Desloges was working in the immigration sector since 2008. In her two years stationed in Nairobi, she processed refugee claims and worked as an officer for the Canadian Border Services Agency. A formal statement from the embassy speculated that she and her team helped thousands of individuals from across East Africa immigrate to Canada.

While reports continue to come in, over 39 have died and a further 150 wounded in what is one of the most deadly terrorist attacks in the region since the 1990s.