Support The Annemarie Desloges Scholarship
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Please consider financially supporting a scholarship fund established by the family of Annemarie Desloges, a Canadian diplomat killed on September 21, 2013, during a terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
She was 29 years old and an employee of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, on secondment to Canada Border Services. The annual scholarship supports an undergraduate student in financial need at the Faculty of Social Sciences or the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Read more about the scholarship here. I did not meet Annemarie, but I had many friends posted to the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi when the attack took place. I had just arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a four-year assignment at the Embassy of Canada. Annemarie's death and the attack on the Westgate Mall by Al Shabab terrorists from Somalia sent shock waves through the Canadian Foreign Service. Her death was a stark reminder for every Canadian diplomat working overseas and the risks that exist. |
Chronology of Annemarie Desloges' Death
Below is a selection of media stories about Annemarie. The links below in no way implies endorsement of any of the opinions or information provided in the articles.
- Westgate attack anniversary marked quietly in Nairobi The Star, Kenya-Sep 21, 2019... and his fiancée Rosemary Wahito, Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor and Canadian diplomat Annemarie Desloges. All four gunmen died in the mall, ...
- Somalia: Canada Recognized Somali Government Official ...Geeska Afrika-Jun 15, 2014.. including two Canadians — North Vancouver businessman Naguib Damji, 59, and Annemarie Desloges, a 29-year-old diplomat who worked at the Canadian ...
- Somalia, Canada vow to re-open embassies iPolitics.ca-Oct 1, 2013... and Annemarie Desloges, a 29-year-old diplomat who worked at the Canadian embassy in Nairobi. Desloges' spouse, Robert Munk, was injured, along with ...
- Vancouver Somali says tragedies like the Nairobi mall attack ...Straight.com-Sep 25, 2013... as Annemarie Desloges, a foreign-service officer working in Kenya originally from Ottawa. The second is Naguib Damji, a businessman from North Vancouver.
- Kenya shopping mall attack: Who are al-Shabaab, the ...The Independent-Sep 24, 2013.. terror force, clockwise from top left: Elif Yavuz; Ross Langdon; Kofi Awoonor; Ruhila Adatia Sood; Juan Ortiz-Iruri; Naguib-Damji; Anne-Marie Desloges; ...
- INCREDIBLE: These chilling pictures from the Kenya mall ...YNaija-Sep 24, 2013. Two Canadians, including diplomat Annemarie Desloges, and two French ... The BBC's Anne Soy said: 'This is an upmarket shopping mall – it's one of the more ...
- Nairobi mall attack: the victims The Guardian-Sep 24, 2013. Annemarie Desloges, a border services liaison officer in Canada's High Commission to Kenya, "was one of our bright young lights, and hers was a career ...
- Kenyan mall crisis continues CHCH News-Sep 23, 2013. 29-year old diplomat, Annemarie Desloges of Ottawa was also killed. Her husband Robert Munk was injured. They are among at least 68 dead and 175 injured.
- Two Canadians dead in Kenya mall attack, including one ...Globalnews.ca-Sep 23, 2013
- Annemarie Desloges was off duty shopping at Nairobi's upscale Westgate Mall when the attack that killed at least 68 people occurred, Foreign Affairs Minister ...
- Canadian victims: A rising diplomatic star and a happy-go ...The Globe and Mail-Sep 23, 2013. Annemarie Desloges, left, was a 29-year-old Canadian diplomat slain in the Kenyan terrorist attack. Naguib Damji, a Vancouver businessman, was also killed in ...
- Kenya mall attack: Ottawa victim from family of diplomatsCBC.ca-Sep 23, 2013. Annemarie Desloges, 29, was off-duty and shopping with her husband, Robert Munk, at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi when Somali militants attacked ...
- Victims of the Kenya mall attackThe Times of Israel-Sep 23, 2013. He paid tribute to the victims and noted the loss of diplomat Annemarie Desloges, who served in Canada's High Commission to Kenya as a liaison officer with ...
- Canadian diplomats who have been killed or kidnapped on ...Canada.com-Sep 22, 2013. OTTAWA — Annemarie Desloges, the 29-year-old Canadian diplomat who was killed in the shopping mall attacks in Kenya, was the first Canadian diplomat ...
- Up to 10 hostages still remain inside complex after special ...Daily Mail-Sep 22, 2013. Canadian diplomat Anne-Marie Desloges, 29, and a pregnant Kenyan radio journalist ... Diplomat Annemarie Desloges, 29, was killed in the terror attack, the ...
- Two Canadians, including diplomat, killed in mall terrorist ...Canada.com-Sep 21, 2013. Annemarie Desloges was off duty shopping at Nairobi's upscale Westgate Mall when the attack that killed at least 59 people occurred, Foreign Affairs Minister ...