It's viewed as disappointing in Africa, because the UAE played a hugely important role in arming and funding militia groups or armies involved in horrendous atrocities that legal scholars and HRW have said amount to genocidal acts, both in Sudan (ongoing since 2023) and Ethiopia (2020-2022).
Despite mass murder of human beings that by far outnumbers anything seen in the Middle East since 7/10/23, the UAE appear to have been given a pass by Biden.