The Obama administration is criticizing President Salva Kiir for his failure to join the opposition in signing a peace deal.
The government of South Sudan says it needs another 15 days to consider the deal.
South Sudan is the world's newest country, but has been engulfed in civil war for the past 18 months.
Our correspondent Priscilla Huff has the reaction from Washington:
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