Reports have it that the ambassador’s convoy was moving at high speed when the seven-year-old was fatally hit in April.
The Associated Press news agency said the boy’s family also received two cows, flour, onions, rice, salt, sugar, soap and oil from the US government.
Officials of the US State Department have also said a well would be built to provide fresh drinking water for the boy’s community, near the northern city of Mokolo.
