2019 in Ivory Coast

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See also:	Other events of 2019 Timeline of Ivorian history

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.^[1]
• 6 August – Ivory Coast and Ghana set a base price of US $2,600 per ton for 2020-21 cocoa prices.^[2]
• 24 December: Presidential candidate and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro diverts his plane to Ghana after the government issued an arrest warrant for him.^[3]

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)^[4]
• 9 March – Bernard Binlin Dadié, novelist, playwright and poet, Minister of Culture (b. 1916)^[5]
• 12 August – DJ Arafat, 33, singer and drummer; motorcycle accident^[6]

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