With geopolitical tensions rising over rights to the Nile, I wonder if rainfall patterns could follow a similar trend.
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-sahara-swung-lush-conditions-y...
It will. I think it was The Economist, but it might have been some other magazine, who had an article recently, regarding Chinas usage of cloud seeding.
You're potentially "stealing" rain from other countries or regions. If it was just going into the ocean, then maybe it's fine, but if you're stealing it from a neighbouring country.
The vast majority of the population of the UAE lives in coastal cities and that is where the rain is induced. To the east, west, and north you have large bodies of water and to the south a (mostly) empty desert.