Women in Cairo walk past a shopping center Monday that was damaged during the anti-government uprising. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP hide caption

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Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is a NPR foreign correspondent based in Cairo.Passengers crowd the departures area at Cairo international airport on Sunday. Michel Moutot/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Southerners living in Jabarona, many of them Christian, pack up to head back to their homeland in the south. Many say they can't stay for fear of a backlash by the Sudanese government and its security forces after the referendum. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson/NPR hide caption
A supermarket smolders after it was sacked and looted in Bizerte, Tunisia, on Jan. 15. Despite the continuation of random attacks by forces loyal to the country's former president, residents of the northern port city say they are striving to get on with their lives. Hassene Dridi/AP hide caption
A billboard counts down the days before the independence referendum in Sudan's southern capital of Juba. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption