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"I know first-hand from being there in the summer how good a team Argentina are," Ford told BBC Sport.

"The people of Sudan, particularly now in el-Fasher, are facing a situation that I never saw before," says Mona Rishmawi, a member of the UN's fact-finding mission on Sudan who has seen the change first-hand over more than two decades.

So, what does public commemoration mean when the veterans themselves have all died - and when there are few alive today who remember first-hand the mass shared grief that gave rise to them?

Kolya knows first-hand the devastation Russia has wrought on his country.

I was a first-hand witness to Jan. 6.