Charles Ble Goude, the former right-hand man of Ivorian ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, is headed to The Hague to be tried for crimes against humanity, the government said Saturday.

The 42-year-old former youth leader faces four counts of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court including murder and rape allegedly committed during post-electoral violence in the west African country in 2010-11.

Ivory Coast will transfer Charles Ble Goude, the jailed right-hand man of former president Laurent Gbagbo, to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, an official said Thursday.

The decision was made at a cabinet meeting, a source at the presidency told Agence France Presse. Gbagbo's former youth leader was arrested in Ghana more than a year ago and extradited to Ivory Coast.

The president of Ivory Coast has extended the mandate of a national "reconciliation commission", set up to heal the wounds of a conflict after contested elections that claimed 3,000 lives.

Alassane Ouattara has signed a presidential decree, obtained by Agence France Presse on Tuesday, handing a new 12-month mandate to the Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CDVR) to "complete its work."

Ivory Coast will hold its next presidential polls in October 2015, said President Alassane Ouattara, whose election in 2010 touched off a wave of violence that left 3,000 dead.

Ouattara did not declare definitively that he would seek a second term. But on Friday he told supporters gathered in central Ivory Coast's Bouake: "I will be here campaigning in September 2015."

Gunmen have killed a journalist in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, the head of the Union of the Private Press of Ivory Coast (Synapp-CI) said Tuesday, calling the murder "a bad sign".

Desire Oue, 40, the managing editor of the "Tomorrow Magazine" review, was "gunned down on Friday night at his home by unidentified armed men," Guillaume Gbatto told Agence France Presse.

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday unsealed a warrant for the arrest of ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo's youth leader, accusing him of crimes against humanity amid a bloody election standoff some three years ago.

Charles Ble Goude, 40, once known as the "Street General", is detained in Ivory Coast and wanted by the ICC on four counts including murder and rape, committed during 2010-2011 post-election violence.

Ivory Coast said Friday it would not transfer former first lady Simone Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, but would try her at home instead.

The decision came 18 months after the ICC issued a warrant for the wife of former president Laurent Gbagbo for suspected crimes against humanity.

Three members of the Ivorian security forces have been killed in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Ivory Coast, in two separate attacks by armed gangs, officials said Saturday.

"Gendarmes and policemen were attacked Tuesday and Friday while on duty in Yamoussoukro," the mayor, Kouakou Gnrangbe, told Agence France Presse.

A court in Ghana on Friday rejected a request from Ivory Coast to extradite a top ally of former president Laurent Gbagbo, ruling that charges against Justin Kone Katinan had "political motivation".

Katinan fled to Ghana in 2011 as a violent post-electoral conflict shook Ivory Coast and he has served as Gbagbo's spokesman since the ousted strongman's arrest in April that year.

An Abidjan court on Monday released on bail 14 aides of former president Laurent Gbagbo, including his son Michel, who had been detained in the aftermath of Ivory Coast's deadly 2011 crisis.

"They are only being freed on bail, the proceedings leading up to the verdicts are in progress and will most likely be concluded by year's end," said a justice ministry statement read out on state television.