If South Sudan's belligerents ignore the latest deadline for a peace deal -- just as they have done with numerous earlier deadlines -- East African nations and the US may be forced to make good on repeated threats to punish those most responsible for the conflict.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar "must reach an agreement by August 17," US President Barack Obama declared in his speech last week to the African Union.
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