Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, John Pridot, in for Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

NATO is turning 70. It has good claim to be the most successful military alliance ever,

but its birthday will not be a happy one.

30 years after the end of the Cold War, it's being shaken by a transatlantic argument

over who pays the bill and questions about what it should really be for.

The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, wants to rename the country.

But his suggestion for a new name could be unintentionally smutty.

First up, though,

it's been five years since an Ebola epidemic swept across West Africa.

Wherever Ebola is discovered, that place would be quarantined completely.

Nobody gets out, nobody gets in except medical workers.

More than 11,000 people in West Africa died.

The response was said to be too slow.

Last August, a fresh outbreak of the virus hit the Democratic Republic of Congo,

or DRC. This was the first time that Ebola had struck in an active war zone. It's now going to be

the second largest Ebola epidemic. It started off in the scrubby village in North Kivu,

and now it's spread to other villages and other towns. So it's notably in these two

big towns, Benny and Butembo. Olivia Ackland reports for the economist from the DRC. And it's extremely

hard to control and hard to regulate because it's such an insecure area. This is a region that's

been terrorized by different armed militia for over two decades. So it's difficult for health

workers to get to

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