Office immigration officers have started interviews in Ivory Coast and Ivory Coast this week to select the first refugees to be brought to Britain for protection.
Since launching a bush rebellion in 1989 and becoming president in 1997, Taylor has been accused of deepening Liberia's chaos and fomenting conflicts in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast.
General Henri Bentégeat, after approval of theminister of the Defense, the president of the Republic designated General Jean Paul Tonier as Chief of operations" in Bunia.