Dateline Pacific evening edition for 16 August 2017

Police in Papua New Guinea's Enga province say they are enforcing a truce between tribes who have been fighting over the recent Kandep election; SPREP says there is growing political awareness of the importance of weather services in the Pacific; The director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme says there is growing political awareness of the importance of weather services in the Pacific; Australia signals closer engagement with Pacific; PNG encouraged to end dependence on gas, oil and gold.