# Tuesday 15th September 2026. Nigeria biggest IPO. Senegal IMF meeting. EU Russia sanctions. Finland France nuclear initiative...

An episode of [Simple English News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1505603790), 14 Sep 2026, 7:03.

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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 15th September 2026. Today: Nigeria biggest IPO. Senegal IMF meeting. EU Russia sanctions. Finland France nuclear initiative. Sweden election results. Saudi Arabia Houthi attack. China defence forum. Indonesia finance minister. Canada EU alliance. Zambia dog migration. With Juliet Martin Become a SEND7 supporter! • Ad-free listening • Bonus quiz episode every Friday • Daily transcripts (written by us, not AI!) • Vocabulary lists • Wednesday worksheets • Ask questions in Ask Me Anything episodes • 10% of our profit goes to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.supercast.com For more information about SEND7 visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Send7 World News in 7 Minutes.
[0:07] Speaker 1: I'm Juliet Martin and today is Tuesday the 15th of September, 2026.
[0:13] Speaker 1: Starting in Africa today. In Nigeria today. Billionaire Aleko Dangote
[0:30] Speaker 1: has launched Africa's biggest ever initial public offering. An initial
[0:37] Speaker 1: public offering is when a private company first sells shares
[0:43] Speaker 1: to the public. Dangote is selling shares in his oil
[0:47] Speaker 1: refinery with the aim to raise up to $ 2. 1 billion.
[0:51] Speaker 1: He is the richest man in Africa and and said
[0:57] Speaker 1: he aims to democratise wealth creation by making the shares
[1:03] Speaker 1: available to the public. Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is
[1:11] Speaker 1: due to meet with the International Monetary Fund's Managing Director,
[1:17] Speaker 1: Kristalina Georgieva, today in the United States. They plan to
[1:23] Speaker 1: discuss economic developments in and economic reform in Senegal, according
[1:30] Speaker 1: to the IMF. Europe. The European Union has chosen to
[1:40] Speaker 1: extend sanctions on Russian individuals and companies by seven days
[1:47] Speaker 1: until the 22nd of September. Envoys did not agree to
[1:52] Speaker 1: renew the sanctions for six months. The sanctions target nearly 3,000
[1:59] Speaker 1: companies and individuals. To be extended, they must be unanimously
[2:05] Speaker 1: approved by all 27 member states. Finland has joined France's
[2:14] Speaker 1: Nuclear Deterrent Initiative. France's Forward Nuclear Deterrence Initiative gives the
[2:22] Speaker 1: French president the authority to decide when nuclear weapons are used. Norway,
[2:30] Speaker 1: Sweden and Denmark joined the initiative earlier this year. It
[2:35] Speaker 1: now has 10 members. In Sweden, preliminary election results yesterday
[2:45] Speaker 1: showed that centre-left opposition parties had a three-seat lead, on
[2:52] Speaker 1: the ruling right-wing government. Asia. In Saudi Arabia, the Houthi
[3:02] Speaker 1: group launched a new attack yesterday. The Houthis originally formed
[3:09] Speaker 1: in Yemen and are aligned with Iran. They said they
[3:14] Speaker 1: attacked a military airbase in Saudi Arabia yesterday, in retaliation
[3:20] Speaker 1: for strikes in Yemen. Talks between Gulf states and Iran
[3:25] Speaker 1: have been cancelled. China's annual defence forum begins today. The
[3:34] Speaker 1: event lasts three days and has hundreds of attendants, including
[3:41] Speaker 1: military officers, diplomats and scholars. Defence Minister Dong Yun is
[3:48] Speaker 1: expected to use his opening speech to suggest closer international cooperation.
[3:55] Speaker 1: In Indonesia, President Prabowo Subianto has appointed a new finance
[4:04] Speaker 1: minister after removing former finance minister Pabaya Yudhisadewa yesterday. Swahazil
[4:12] Speaker 1: Nazara will be the new minister. He becomes the third
[4:18] Speaker 1: finance minister in under two years. He said the priority
[4:24] Speaker 1: is to run a credible state budget. The Americas. Canada's
[4:33] Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he is open to
[4:39] Speaker 1: a unique alliance between with the European Union. He said
[4:44] Speaker 1: Canada could become an associate member of the bloc, according
[4:50] Speaker 1: to the Wall Street Journal. He said, we share the
[4:53] Speaker 1: same values, we have the same priorities, and we have
[4:59] Speaker 1: very complementary strengths. United States President Donald Trump has said
[5:07] Speaker 1: that he would allow Chinese carmakers to to begin production
[5:12] Speaker 1: in the US. US lawmakers and carmakers have opposed this idea.
[5:21] Speaker 1: He also said he is against Chinese carmakers building cars
[5:26] Speaker 1: in Mexico. Trump also said he plans to increase car
[5:33] Speaker 1: tariffs on Canada. in January. I find Canada to be very,
[5:38] Speaker 1: very difficult to deal with. Their leaders, not the people,
[5:41] Speaker 1: the people of India, but I find them to be very,
[5:43] Speaker 1: very difficult. But we have a lot of tariffs, a
[5:45] Speaker 1: lot more tariffs are coming in. Don't forget on January 1st,
[5:48] Speaker 1: car tariffs, the big one is cars. We take in
[5:52] Speaker 1: a lot of their cars, car tariffs are coming. And
[5:57] Speaker 1: a pack of three African wild dogs have migrated 4,000
[6:04] Speaker 1: kilometres across Zambia in search of mates. This is the
[6:10] Speaker 1: furthest migration ever recorded for an African land mammal. African
[6:16] Speaker 1: wild dogs are the rarest predators in Africa. There are
[6:21] Speaker 1: only around 6,000 remaining in the wild. Males leave their
[6:28] Speaker 1: pack to find a mate at the age of two
[6:32] Speaker 1: or three. That's your world news in seven minutes. If
[6:38] Speaker 1: you enjoyed this podcast, please tell your friends about us.
[6:43] Speaker 1: You can get in touch with us in a voice
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[6:51] Speaker 1: at send7. org. I'm Juliet Martin. Tomorrow you will be with
[6:57] Speaker 1: Stephen Devincenzi. Have a great day.

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