South Sudan referendum

A South Sudanese man casts his vote in a ballot box while carrying his child at a polling center during the third day of the South Sudan independence referendum in the city of Um Durman, Sudan, on Jan. 11. Thousands of people began casting ballots on Jan. 9 during a week-long vote. The mainly Christian south is expected to secede from the primarily Muslim north.

PHOTO: Nasser Nasser/AP