Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West Africa Economic Department and successors: Registered Files, West Africa Economic (WAE Series)

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Title: Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West Africa Economic Department and successors: Registered Files, West Africa Economic (WAE Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the various departments of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Commonwealth Office dealing with economic and financial affairs in Commonwealth West Africa.
Date: 1964-1967
Arrangement:

By former file reference
Related material:

For records of successor, the West African Department, see FCO 65
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: WAE file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, West and General Africa Department, 1966-1968

Commonwealth Relations Office, Development Policy and West Africa Economic Department, 1964-

Commonwealth Relations Office, Development Policy and West and East Africa Economic Department, 1965-1966

Commonwealth Relations Office, West Africa Economic Department, 1964-1964
Physical description: 132 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accruals: This series accrued in a single transfer in 1999; occasional further accruals may be expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The West Africa Economic Department was established in 1964 to deal with general economic, development, financial, export credit and technical co-operation matters for Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone (and, when it achieved independence in February 1965, the Gambia) when the work of the earlier Africa Economic Department was split, (other functions passing to an East Africa Economic Department).

The department had particular responsibility for policy on gold, cocoa and oil-seeds. Towards the end of 1964 these functions passed to a Development Policy and West Africa Economic Department, which in 1965 absorbed the East Africa Economic Department to become the Development Policy and West and East Africa Department. On the formation of the Commonwealth Office in August 1966 economic affairs in Africa became the responsibility of the West and General Africa Department.

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