Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department: Registered Files, General Africa (GA Series)

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Details of DO 216
Reference: DO 216
Title: Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department: Registered Files, General Africa (GA Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the West and General Africa Department dealing with issues relating to Commonwealth interests in the whole of Africa, particularly the conflict in the Congo and the relations of the Commonwealth with the apartheid regime in South Africa. The GA series was used for general Africa matters only, other file series were used for records of relations with the West African states.

Date: 1963-1966
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For later records see:

For earlier records see: DO 181

FCO 65

FCO 38

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: GA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

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

Commonwealth Relations Office, West and General Africa Department, 1964-1966

Physical description: 63 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accumulation dates: Series ran from 1964 to 1966
Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The West and General Africa Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office was established in 1964 to handle Commonwealth relations with Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, and matters of general Commonwealth interest relating to Africa as a whole. General Africa questions had previously been dealt with by the UN and General Africa Department.

The department continued with unchanged responsibilities under the Commonwealth Office from August 1966, but its functions were dispersed to various departments in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from October 1968.

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