Dateline Pacific evening edition for 19 July 2017

A scholar of Fiji politics says the military's assurance that it will accept the results of next year's election could instead spread anxiety; a project to reduce preventable deaths in the Pacific by improving medical data collection has received a significant funding boost from a US philantropist; concerns raised about the high levels of family violence in Samoa; a call for more support for teen-aged parents in Samoa and Fiji launches a national diabetes register.