The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun to airlift emergency food supplies to Mogadishu, capital of famine-struck Somalia.The UN agency is flying in 10 tonnes of food for people suffering amid the worst regional drought for decades.The delivery was to have begun on Tuesday but was delayed from leaving Kenya by bureaucratic hurdles.Islamist militias control most of Somalia and have banned the WFP from their areas.The WFP delivery is the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two southern areas of Somalia last week.Thousands of people have fled to Mogadishu in search of assistance. The weak interim government, backed by an African Union force, controls only parts of the city.Somalia is thought to be worst-hit by the crisis, but Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti have also been affected.More than 10 million people in the region are thought to be at risk.Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has warned that more than 3.5 million people "may starve to death" in his country.Source: BBC