Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Central African Department: Registered Files (JC...

Description and record details

Reference	FCO 106
Title	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Central African Department: Registered Files (JC file series)
Date	1979 - 1987
Description	This series contains the records of Central African Department, dealing with UK relations with Angola, Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zaire and Zambia, and later Sao Tome and Principe and Zimbabwe.
Arrangement	Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.
Related material	For earlier records see FCO 45
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department	JC file series
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Central African Department, 1979-1990
Physical description	2678 file(s)
Access conditions	Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition	From 2010 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accruals	Series is accruing
Selection and destruction information	Policy documents selected under the agreed Operation Selection Policies (OSP 13 and OSP 23)
Administrative/ biographical background	The Central African Department was formed in 1979, one of the successors to the Central and Southern Africa Department (1973-1979). At its creation, the department had responsibilities for the following: Angola, Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zaire and Zambia. In 1980 it also acquired responsibilities Sao Tome and Principe and Zimbabwe. The Central African Department ran until 1990 when it was succeeded by the Central and Southern Africa Department.

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