Soldiers check the identity of voters and monitor flow into a polling station as Egyptian women line-up to cast their vote during a referendum on the new Egyptian constitution on December 15, 2012 in Cairo.

People look for their names at a polling station before casting their votes in Cairo on December 15, 2012.

A woman proudly shows her ink-marked finger after voting for the referendum for a new constitution, at a polling station in Cairo on December 15, 2012.

Men queue outside a polling center in Cairo on December 15, 2012.

A girl waits with relatives queuing to vote at a polling station in central Cairo on December 15, 2012.

A Moroccan woman casts her vote in a polling station on July 1 in Sale, near Rabat, in a referendum on curbing the near absolute powers of King Mohammed VI, who has offered reforms in the wake of protests inspired by pro-democracy uprisings around the Arab world. Faced with demonstrations modelled on the Arab Spring protests, Mohammed VI announced the referendum last month to devolve some of his powers to the prime minister and parliament of the north African country.

A man from the cattle herding Mundari tribe stretches after waking up in a settlement near Terekeka, south Sudan, on Wednesday, Jan. 19. South Sudanese voted overwhelmingly to declare independence from the north in a referendum, according to officials in seven out of the region's ten states polled by Reuters on Wednesday. Referendum officials reported large votes in favor of independence -- some releasing early figures, some saying trends pointed to support of more than 90 percent -- in the southern state of Central Equatoria.

A man from the cattle herding Mundari tribe holds his son in a settlement near Terekeka, Central Equatoria state, south Sudan on Wednesday.