The UN refugee agency is appealing for 2.8 million U. S. dollars to provide essential supplies and respond to possible disease outbreaks among more than 300,000 refugees in two camps in Kenya threatened by flooding.

Andrej Mahecic, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said in a statement received here Saturday that the agency has already begun to make engineering improvements in the two camps: Kakuma in north-western Kenya and Dadaab in the east.