Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on Sunday issued a "message of national reconciliation" during a visit to a stronghold of his ousted predecessor Laurent Gbagbo, less than a month before the country's presidential elections.

Ouattara is the favorite to win the October 25 vote, seen as crucial to restoring stability in the country after post-poll violence in 2010 and 2011 left more than 3,000 people dead, unrest which was triggered by Gbagbo's refusal to step down and acknowledge Ouattara's victory at the ballot box.

The defence team for Laurent Gbagbo, who is currently awaiting trial for war crimes in The Hague, on Friday asked that the ex-Ivorian leader be tried on his home continent instead.

Gbagbo's trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is due to open in November, with the former president accused of crimes against humanity after his refusal to concede defeat in 2010 elections sparked a bloody stand-off in which some 3,000 people died.

A Prague court has ruled a Lebanese national and two Ivory Coast citizens can be extradited to the United States to face terror charges.

The three men were arrested in Prague in April 2014 while trying to sell weapons to undercover U.S. law enforcement officials who pretended to be from a Colombian terrorist group.

Protesters torched vehicles and clashed with police Thursday as trouble erupted in several Ivory Coast towns ahead of next month's landmark presidential election.

The protests were called by part of the opposition a day after the release by the Constitutional Council of the official list of 10 contenders running in the October 25 poll, including incumbent Alassane Ouattara.

The opposition coalition in the Ivory Coast on Monday invited President Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a controversial second term, to discuss conditions for upcoming elections while "there is still time."

"The elections cannot and must not be held without sitting down to discuss the conditions," said Jean-Jacques Bechio, spokesman for the National Coalition for Change (NCN).

Ivory Coast's government on Wednesday announced that the first round of a presidential election that is seen as crucial for the country's stability will be held on October 25.

Incumbent Alassane Ouattara will be seeking a second term and is widely expected to remain in office.

The International Criminal Court must broaden its investigation into the violence that ripped Ivory Coast apart in 2010 and 2011 to include violations committed by loyalists of President Alassane Ouattara, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Since 2011, the Hague-based court's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has been probing a conflict that erupted after former president Laurent Gbagbo refused to concede defeat to Ouattara in a vote the year before.

A 27-year-old Moroccan man suffocated to death while trying to illegally enter Spain hidden inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car, police said Monday.

The man's older brother appears to have tried to smuggle him into Spain by ferry.

Malian troops destroyed two jihadist camps and arrested 15 suspected militants in the latest operation combating radical Islamist groups near the southern border with Ivory Coast, military sources said on Tuesday.

"During new military operations in the area, we arrested 15 new jihadists and destroyed a new sanctuary of theirs in the region of Sikasso, on the border with Ivory Coast," a military officer told AFP.

Malian troops killed several jihadists near the country's southern border with Ivory Coast and destroyed the insurgents' camp in a forest straddling the frontier, a Malian army officer said Thursday.

"We have just destroyed the main military camp of the jihadists in the south, in the Sama forest located on the Ivorian border," the officer told AFP by telephone, requesting anonymity.