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Samantha Power,
who is visiting Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, said the boy was hit
by a vehicle in a motorcade carrying U.S., U.N. and Cameroonian
officials. Medics in the convoy treated him but he died of his
injuries.
"I joined the (Cameroonian) governor of the area ... the leading
U.N. official who manages the humanitarian and development
response and Ambassador Hoza, and we visited with the boy's
family to offer our profound condolences," she said in a speech.
Power also described meeting refugees and called for financial
support from the international community to aid the development
of areas battered by Boko Haram.
Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad are contributing forces to fight the
group. Power has been scheduled to visit the region's
Multinational Joint Task Force, which is staffed with troops
from the three nations as well as Niger and Benin.
The United States has sent troops and drones and offered to send
a special operations mission to the fight against Boko Haram,
which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and is
believed to have killed 15,000 people.
(Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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