2019 in Ivory Coast
# 2019 in Ivory Coast

Events in the year 2019 in Ivory Coast.

## Incumbents

* President: Alassane Ouattara
* Prime Minister: Amadou Gon Coulibaly

## Events

* 6 February – Former president Laurent Gbagbo is cleared of crimes against humanity and released to Belgium.
* 6 August – Ivory Coast and Ghana set a base price of US $2,600 per ton for 2020-21 cocoa prices.
* 24 December: Presidential candidate and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro diverts his plane to Ghana after the government issued an arrest warrant for him.

### Sports

* 14 September to 18 October: Scheduled date for the 2019 World Draughts Championship, to be held in Yamoussoukro

## Deaths

* 19 January – Barthélémy Kotchy, writer and politician (b. 1934)
* 9 March – Bernard Binlin Dadié, novelist, playwright and poet, Minister of Culture (b. 1916)
* 12 August – DJ Arafat, 33, singer and drummer; motorcycle accident
