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A Sudanese man shows the palms of his hands after he dipped them in the blood of a sacrificial cow as he and others celebrate the results of the January referendum on the secession of southern Sudan from the north in the capital Khartoum, on February 7, 2011. Southern Sudan is on track to become the world's newest state after final results of its historic independence referendum showed that 98.83 percent of its people had voted for secession.