‘Prejudiced’ Home Office refusing visas to African researchers

Health workers prepare the body of a Congolese woman for burial after she died of Ebola. Researchers were refused entry to the UK for vital training to combat the outbreak. Photograph: Baz Ratner/ReutersThe Home Office is being accused of institutional racism and damaging British research projects through increasingly arbitrary and “insulting” visa refusals for academics.In April, a team of six Ebola researchers from Sierra Leone were unable to attend vital training in the UK, funded