zambia: ZAMBIA DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO STARVING WILDLIFE

Southern Africa's food crisis has affected animals as well as people, prompting Zambia to start distributing food to the country's starving wildlife, a conservation official said Friday.   Food shortages caused by poor weather and made worse by political problems in southern Africa are threatening not only 14 million people in the region but also thousands of wild animals, said the Zambia Wildlife Authority's director-general, Hapenga Kabeta.