2024 in the United Arab Emirates
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Events in the year 2024 in the United Arab Emirates.
Events
January
- 1 January – The United Arab Emirates formally joins the BRICS group.[1]
- 1 January – Turkey permits visa free travel for Emirati citizens.[2]
February
- 14 February - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the BAPS Hindu Mandir, the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi.[3]
- 22 February - United Kingdom opens Electronic Travel Authorization for Emirati citizens.[4]
- 23 February - The Financial Action Task Force removes the UAE from its "gray list" of countries not fully complying with measures to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.[5]
April
- 4 April - Five people are killed in a fire at a residential building in Sharjah.[6]
- 16 April - Heavy rains cause floods in multiple areas in the United Arab Emirates.[7] The National Center for Meteorology records the country's heaviest rainfall in 75 years.[8] At least four people are reported killed.[9][10]
- 26 April - The United Arab Emirates plans to seek bids for a second nuclear power plant.[11]
May
- 1 May – Al Ain's ruler Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan dies at the age of 82.
June
- 19 June – Sudan's UN envoy accuses the United Arab Emirates at the United Nations Security Council of arming the Rapid Support Forces in the Sudanese civil war (2023-present).[12] The United Arab Emirates rejects the accusations as fabrications to mislead the international community.[13]
- 26 June – United Arab Emirates and Cambodia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) enters into force.[14]
July
- 10 July – The Federal Court of Appeal sentences 43 people, including several human rights activists, to life imprisonment in a mass trial on charges of plotting acts of violence and destabilisation.[15]
- 21 July – Fifty-seven Bangladeshi expatriates are sentenced to varying prison terms for holding protests in support of the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.[16] They are later pardoned by UAE president Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on 3 September.[17]
- 29 July – The United Arab Emirates grants lottery licenses for the first time in its history.[18]
August
- 21 August – The United Arab Emirates accepts the credentials of Badruddin Haqqani as ambassador of the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.[19]
September
- 23 September – The United Arab Emirates becomes the second country after India to be designated as a "major defense partner" by the United States.[20]
- 24 September – Four soldiers are killed and nine injured after an accident while transporting ammunition in the UAE.[21][22]
- 29 September – The residence of the UAE's ambassador to Sudan is bombed in Khartoum, with the UAE accusing the Sudanese Armed Forces of launching an airstrike[23] and the latter blaming the Rapid Support Forces for the incident.[24]
October
- 31 October – United States Customs and Border Protection admits Emirati citizens into Global Entry program.[25]
November
- 6 November – The UAE and Australia sign a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).[26]
- 17 November – Stocks listed in the United Arab Emirates top $1 trillion USD for the first time.[27]
- 24 November – Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi working for Chabad, is found killed after being reported missing in Dubai on 21 November. The Israeli government attributes his death as motivated by anti-Semitism.[28]
December
- 3 December – United Arab Emirates foreign aid reach AED 360 billion ($98 billion) since its establishment in 1971.[29]
- 26 December – A light aircraft crashes off the coast of Ras Al Khaimah, killing the pilot and her sole companion.[30]
