The Soufan Center (TSC), in partnership with journalist and security expert James Blake and the image verification platform Truepic, is launching a new initiative to document the humanitarian, societal, and security effects of COVID-19 in countries across the Middle East and North Africa. The initiative, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, will support local reporting from the region.

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