Badra Ali Sangare went to seize a ball headed returned to him via a teammate inside the 1/3 added minute in an try and save you a corner, handiest to drop it into the path of Steven Caulker who squared for substitute Kamara to attain.
It changed into a super second and one that avoided the Ivory Coast from wrapping up qualification for the final 16 there and then.
Sangare, who has taken over the gloves at this event because first-desire Sylvain Gbohouo became passed a doping ban, then went off injured, leaving right-returned Serge Aurier to peer out the match between the posts.
Before the overdue drama the 2015 champions regarded to have a 2nd win in as many video games in Group E sewn up way to Nicolas Pepe's 2nd-1/2 strike, however this end result leaves them on 4 points and Sierra Leone on .
"Honestly I can't explain that aim. You could have Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola in rate and they wouldn't be capable of put together for that," stated Ivory Coast instruct Patrice Beaumelle, whose side ought to nonetheless face Algeria.
"I notion our performance was sincerely first-class and we even performed a few in reality attractive stuff at times, but maybe this stadium doesn't accept as true with us."
Franck Kessie had an early penalty for the Elephants saved but Ajax big name Sebastien Haller put them in advance and Musa Kamara made it 1-1 earlier than Pepe struck.
Arsenal ahead Pepe, Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha and captain Aurier all got here into the Ivorian line-up as Beaumelle made three adjustments for this west African derby.
Zaha was arising in opposition to Sierra Leone centre-returned Caulker - the duo performed within the identical England group in a pleasant in Sweden in 2012 earlier than later affirming for their current country wide groups.