# Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ## The power he actually held Mohamed bin Zayed has been president of the UAE since 14 May 2022 and Ruler of Abu Dhabi since 13 May. The Federal Supreme Council elects the president. ADNOC still has a board. Dubai still runs its own books. He is powerful enough to join a Yemen coalition and to host a COP. He is not the unique author of a UNFCCC gavel or of an Israeli statute. ## What went wrong, and what is proven The sharpest documented force file is the [2015 Yemen intervention](/facts/ae-yemen-intervention-2015). The UAE joined Saudi Arabia’s coalition. Civilian harm and southern fragmentation followed. A coalition is not a unique UAE body-count. The [2017 Qatar blockade](/facts/ae-qatar-blockade-2017) cut a fellow GCC member for forty-three months until Al-Ula. [Ahmed Mansoor’s sentence](/facts/ae-ahmed-mansoor-2018) is a completed domestic-rights file. Libya-adjacent support for [Haftar](/people/khalifa-haftar) is a dated security choice. [ADNOC expansion](/facts/ae-adnoc-expansion) sits beside COP28, not inside it. UN reporting on Sudan and the RSF is stored as an [oversight cluster](/facts/ae-sudan-un-panel-2024): allegation and panel reporting, not a completed judgment. ## What improved, and how far The [Abraham Accords](/facts/il-abraham-2020) are a completed normalisation with Israel; later Gaza is a neighbouring war, not a reason to unwrite 15 September 2020. Barakah is first commercial nuclear power in the Arab world under IAEA safeguards. [Labour-law changes](/facts/ae-labour-reform-2021) eased some kafala features without abolishing employer power. [India CEPA](/facts/ae-india-cepa-2022) is a signed trade instrument. [COP28’s UAE Consensus](/facts/ae-cop28-uae-consensus-2023) is the first COP text to mention transitioning from fossil fuels; ADNOC still expands. [Hope at Mars](/facts/ae-hope-mars-2021) is a completed orbit. The [2022 presidential election](/facts/ae-mbz-president-2022) is a completed Federal Supreme Council act. Official carriers used in the graph include WAM and the UAE presidency (https://www.wam.ae/, https://www.mohamedbinzayed.ae/), UNFCCC COP28 pages (https://unfccc.int/), IAEA/FANR nuclear records, the [White House](/organizations/white-house) Abraham Accords text (https://www.federalregister.gov/ and https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/), and contemporaneous Reuters reporting (https://www.reuters.com/). ## Shared responsibility, and what the score does not say The score does not say that every Yemeni death is a personal homicide count. It does not say that a COP gavel rebates an oil licence. It does not convert a UN panel paragraph into a completed trial. Confidence is high on WAM, Accords, and Barakah commercial dates, and medium where southern Yemeni forces, ADNOC subsidiaries, and UN experts sit between a signature and a welfare series. Related people on this page are GCC, Abraham, Nile/Horn, and great-power counterparts who actually shared files: Tamim, MBS, Netanyahu, Trump, Biden, Modi, Sisi, Abiy, Xi, Putin, Erdoğan, Macron. A president-ruler is powerful enough to own those coalitions and those Accords. He is not powerful enough to be the unique author of a UNFCCC party or of an IAEA licence, and the dossier keeps that line visible. ## Dated facts - 2025: Amnesty traced Chinese bomb in RSF North Darfur strike to UAE re-export. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-rsf-al-malha-gb50a-strike-2025. Sources: https://www.mofa.gov.ae/en/MediaHub/News/2025/5/8/8-5-2025-UAE-Sudan, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2772, https://docs.un.org/en/S/2024/65, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/05/sudan-advanced-chinese-weaponry-provided-by-uae-identified-in-breach-of-arms-embargo-new-investigation/. - 2024: UAE84 mass trial produced lengthy sentences for government critics. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-uae84-mass-trial-verdicts-2024. Sources: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/27/uae-24-defendants-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/07/uae-scores-convicted-in-sham-mass-trial-violating-fundamental-legal-principles/, https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/10/uae-unfair-trial-unjust-sentences. - 2024: UN and US reporting alleges UAE support to Sudan’s RSF; Abu Dhabi denies. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-sudan-un-panel-2024. Sources: https://www.mofa.gov.ae/en/MediaHub/News/2025/5/8/8-5-2025-UAE-Sudan, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2772, https://docs.un.org/en/S/2024/65, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/05/sudan-advanced-chinese-weaponry-provided-by-uae-identified-in-breach-of-arms-embargo-new-investigation/, https://www.icj-cij.org/node/205468, https://documents.un.org/api/symbol/access?l=en&s=s%2F2024%2F65&t=pdf, https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uae-sudan-rsf-allegations-2024/, https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1591. - 2023: COP28 adopts the UAE Consensus in Dubai. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-cop28-uae-consensus-2023. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cop28-deal-signals-beginning-end-fossil-fuels-era-2023-12-13/, https://unfccc.int/cop28. - 2023: The UAE condemns Hamas’s 7 October attack while keeping Abraham Accords. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-gaza-2023-position. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-condemns-hamas-attack-keeps-israel-ties-2023-10/, https://www.wam.ae/. - 2022: Mohamed bin Zayed visits Doha, the first presidential trip since the blockade. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-doha-visit-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-president-visits-qatar-sign-thaw-2022-12-05/, https://www.wam.ae/. - 2022: ADNOC advances a multi-year upstream expansion programme. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-adnoc-expansion. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/adnoc-oil-capacity-expansion-2022/, https://www.adnoc.ae/. - 2022: The UAE maintains high female representation in the Federal National Council and cabinet. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-women-federal-posts-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-women-cabinet-fnc-2022/, https://www.mohamedbinzayed.ae/. - 2022: The I2U2 grouping holds its first leaders’ meeting. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-i2u2-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/i2u2-israel-india-uae-us-meeting-2022-07-14/, https://www.whitehouse.gov/. - 2022: The UAE remains an OPEC+ partner and a channel for Russian energy trade after the invasion. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-russia-oil-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uae-russia-oil-trade-2022/, https://www.opec.org/. - 2022: The Federal Supreme Council elects Mohamed bin Zayed president of the UAE. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-mbz-president-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-names-abu-dhabi-crown-prince-president-2022-05-14/, https://www.wam.ae/. - 2022: The UAE announces humanitarian assistance after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-ukraine-aid-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-ukraine-aid-2022-03/, https://www.wam.ae/. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan