The UN World Food Programme, WFP, will begin airlifting food to Somalia today. WFP head Josette Sheeran said at crisis talks on East Africa's drought that aid would be airlifted to the capital, Mogadishu.This will be the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two areas of Somalia last week.Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Ibrahim warned at the emergency meeting in Rome that more than 3.5 million people may starve to death in his country.Islamists, who control most of Somalia, have banned the WFP from their areas.