On this edition of Africa 54, days before Thursday’s Ugandan presidential and parliamentary elections, opposition candidate Bobi Wine says soldiers raided his home Tuesday and arrested his security guards; The Democratic-majority U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote to impeach President Donald Trump as early as Wednesday, charging him with inciting an insurrection in an attempt to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory; Japan says it has detected a new variant of the coronavirus in four travelers arriving from Brazil as countries scramble to contain two other contagious strains that have emerged in Britain and South Africa.
