title: 2019 in Ivory Coast
text: # 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
  