THE Socialist International’s Council wrapped up a two-day meeting in Maputo last week with a warning about the negative effects of globalisation on Africa. ”As a continent, Africa has benefitted the least from globalisation and has suffered the most from the injustice of this process,” the council said in a declaration. ”To guide the global economy, so that it enhances the prospects not only for Africans but for all the world’s citizens, the Socialist International calls for a better-structured world in which development can be shaped by people for people rather than simply by markets on behalf of capital,” it said. – AFP