2025 in Egypt
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Events in the year 2025 in Egypt.
Incumbents
| Photo | Post | Name |
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| President of Egypt | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | |
| Prime Minister of Egypt | Moustafa Madbouly |
Events
February
- February 12 – The American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collides with a Turkish merchant vessel near Port Said. No injuries are reported.[1]
- February 17 – Ten people are killed in a building collapse in Kerdasa, Giza Governorate.[2]
- February 18 – Archaeologists announce the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose II in Thebes, in what is the first ancient Egyptian royal tomb to be discovered since that of Tutankhamun in 1922.[3]
March
- March 13 – A train collides with a minibus at an unauthorized crossing in Ismailia Governorate, killing eight people.[4]
- March 27 – A tourist submarine sinks in the Red Sea off the coast of Hurghada, killing six Russian nationals.[5]
May
- May 19 – An unspecified training aircraft of the Egyptian Air Force crashes in an undisclosed location, killing its entire crew.[6]
June
- June 14 – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators and Global March to Gaza supporters are stopped by Egyptian border patrol and law enforcement, leading to violent clashes that same day.[7]
- 27 June – A minibus collides with a truck in Ashmoun, Monufia, killing 19 people and injuring three others.[8]
July
- 1 July – An oil-drilling vessel capsizes in the Gulf of Suez off the coast of Ras Ghareb, killing four people and leaving three others missing.[9][10]
- 7 July – Ramses Exchange fire. Four people are killed and at least 27 others are injured in a fire at the Ramses Exchange operated by Telecom Egypt in Cairo that also causes a reduction of telecommunications connectivity by 62% and a suspension of trading on the Cairo stock exchange the next day.[11]
Scheduled
- 2025 Egyptian parliamentary election[12]
- August 8 – 2025 IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship[13]
Deaths
- 9 January – Laila Rustom, 87, TV presenter.[14]
- 30 March – Pachomius, 89, Coptic Orthodox prelate, metropolitan bishop of Beheira (since 1971).[15]
- 12 April – Ibrahim Shika, 28, footballer (Zamalek).[16]
References
- ^ "US aircraft carrier collides with merchant ship near Egypt, but no injuries reported". AP News. 13 February 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ^ "10 dead in building collapse in Egypt". AP News. 17 February 2025. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
- ^ "Thutmose II's tomb is Egypt's biggest archaeological discovery since 1922". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ "At least 8 people are killed when a passenger train slams into a minibus in Egypt". AP News. 13 March 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "6 Russian Tourists Killed in Egyptian Submarine Accident". The Moscow Times. 27 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ^ "Training aircraft crashes during air force exercise: Army Spox". Ahram Online. 19 May 2025. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
- ^ "Violent clashes in Egypt after Western activists try to enter Gaza". The Jerusalem Post. 2025-06-14. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
- ^ "19 killed in a road collision in Egypt's Nile Delta region". CTV News. 2025-06-27. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ "An oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least 4 crewmen, Egypt says". AP News. 2 July 2025. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
- ^ "Four die as vessel capsizes in Suez Gulf; three still missing". Reuters. 2025-07-02. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
- ^ "Cairo telecom building fire kills 4 and injures 27". AP News. 2 July 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ "National Dialogue to submit three proposed electoral systems to President Sisi: Coordinator". August 5, 2023.
- ^ "2025 IHF Men's Youth World Championship to be hosted by the Egyptian Handball Federation". IHF. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
- ^ وفاة الإعلامية ليلى رستم عن عمر يناهز 88 عامًا (in Arabic)
- ^ "The Departure of His Eminence Metropolitan Pakhomius, the Metropolitan Elder of the Coptic Orthodox Church". Coptic Orthodox Church. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
- ^ Rana Atef (12 April 2025). "Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer". Sada Elbalad English. Retrieved 13 April 2025.