Geneva: The UN refugee agency says it has flown aid to Somalia's capital for the first time in five years as people continue to arrive from famine-hit parts of the country.
And Turkey sent Monday two cargo planes of humanitarian aid to famine hit Somalia, Anatolia news agency reported
A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says an Ilyushin IL-62 cargo plane landed in Mogadishu early afternoon Monday carrying 31 metric tons of shelter materials.
Andrej Mahecic says further flights will follow in the coming days.
He told The Associated Press on Monday that aid deliveries by land and sea were too slow to cope with the dramatic influx of Somalis to Mogadishu.
UNHCR says some 100,000 people have fled to the capital in the past two months.
The UN estimates that tens of thousands of people have died of malnutrition in Somalia in recent months.
Turkey flies in aid
Fifty tonnes of aid material are expected to assist some 1,500 families for one month, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported.
Ten tonnes of medicine and medical equipment were included in the aid, the agency quoted health minister Recep Akdag as saying.
The United Nations last month declared famine in two areas of southern Somalia, as the world slowly mobilised to help 12 million people battling hunger in the region's worst drought in 60 years.
Tens of thousands have died.
Parts of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti are also hit by drought.