United Nations, March 22 -- "Urgent and sustained funding" for a Government-led response to what is now a "massive and protracted" humanitarian crisis across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is required, said the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN relief chief on Friday. Following on from a fact-finding mission to DRC this week, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and the UN's top Humanitarian Affairs official (OCHA), Mark Lowcock, said the funds were urgently needed to meet the needs of children, families and vulnerable communities, including people with disabilities. "The relatively peaceful political transition taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is an opportunity that we must seize on," th...