WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- Chad's heat-of-the-moment threat to stop oil production and expel thousands of Darfur refugees came on the heels of a rebel assault on its capital last week. However, President Idriss Deby's government Monday agreed to extend the deadline after the United States offered to mediate a dispute over frozen oil revenues.

'The government is happy to accept the American government`s offer of mediation and has decided to grant time proposed for this mediation by the U.S. State Department,' said an official statement read on state radio.

The deadline, originally set for midday Tuesday, was delayed until the end of April, when U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State...

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