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Events in the year 2024 in the United Arab Emirates.
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January
- 1 January – The United Arab Emirates formally joins the BRICS group.[1]
February
- 14 February - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the BAPS Hindu Mandir, the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi.[2]
- 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.[3]
April
June
- 19 June – Sudan accuses the United Arab Emirates of arming the Rapid Support Forces in the Sudanese civil war (2023-present).[8]
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.[9]
- 21 July – Fifty-seven Bangladeshi expatriates are sentenced to varying prison terms for holding protests in support of the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.[10] They are later pardoned by UAE president Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on 3 September.[11]
- 29 July – The United Arab Emirates grants lottery licenses for the first time in its history.[12]
August
- 21 August – The United Arab Emirates accepts the credentials of Badruddin Haqqani as ambassador of the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.[13]
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.[14]
- 24 September – Four soldiers are killed and nine injured after an accident. No details are offered.[15]
- 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[16] and the latter blaming the Rapid Support Forces for the incident.[17]
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- January 1 – New Year's Day
- April 10 – Eid al-Fitr
- June 15 – Day of Arafat
- June 16–17 – Eid al-Adha
- July 7 – Islamic New Year
- September 16– The Prophet's Birthday
- December 1 – Commemoration Day
- December 2 – National Day
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