"On Sunday, UNHCR-chatered flights began delivering some 32,000 litres of fuel from Garissa, the northeastern provincial capital some 100 kilomtresmiles) away," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement.

"Ten flights have already delivered 12,000 litres of fuel to Dadaab, a remote camp on Kenya's boarder with Somalia," the statement added.

Floods have washed away the Garissa-Dadaab road, the only one that links the remote camp hosting 60,000, mainly Somali refugees, with the Kenyan capital.

On Friday, the UNHCR office in Dadaab warned of a possible outbreak of water-born diseases among the 60,000 refugees.

The UNHCR has also suspended the repatriation of 300 refugees to their homes in Galkayo and Bossaso areas of northeastern Somalia because of the floods.

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