Somalia fractured. Yemen fractured. Libya fractured. Sudan bleeding Darfur toward collapse. Niger coup failed after UAE meddling, relations severed. Algeria relations just cut off entirely. Pattern is unmistakable: wherever the UAE gets involved in African politics, the country comes apart. Either the UAE is catastrophically inept at regime change, or its strategy is deliberately destabilizing. Neither option is reassuring. What exactly is Abu Dhabi trying to build here?