[Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, sentenced in 2012 to 50 years for crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone and currently jailed in the UK, has asked to be transferred to Rwanda, to be closer to his family, Hirondelle learned on Thursday. Taylor, 66, sent his request to the Residual Mechanism for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). The SCSL officially closed its doors after it had finished his case.]