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Egypt delays early voting on referendum

Maggie Michael, Maggie Fick

A Southern Sudanese soldiers stands at attention during the national anthem during an independence rehearsal procession in Juba, southern Sudan on Thursday, July 7, 2011. The Government of Southern Sudan is making lavish preparations to celebrate its declaration of independence from the north on Saturday, July 9th. The south's secession comes after decades of brutal civil war between north and south that resulted in more than two million deaths, most of which were southerners. (AP Photo/Pete Muller) (AP)

South Sudan becomes world’s newest nation

Maggie Fick

In this Nov. 4, 2010 photo, Ajak Kuol Nyamchiek, 7, watches while John Lotiki, a nurse with the Carter Center, bandages the blister on her leg from where a guinea worm is slowly emerging in Abuyong, Sudan. Nyamchiek is a patient at Centers guinea worm case containment center. Nurses at this center in Abuyong, a village in Awerial County in Southern Sudans Lakes state, bandage the worms twice daily, after gently pulling the worms out several inches each time. If they break while they are being pulled out of the swollen blisters, the wounds become infected and the worms withdraw back into the body, prolonging the pain for the victims. (AP Photo/Maggie Fick) (AP)

Will Carter finally defeat guinea worm?

Maggie Fick