DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s authorities secretly held and abused a prominent investigative journalist and dozens of others in a makeshift detention facility in the capital, an international advocacy group said Wednesday, in the latest crackdown on political dissent in the West African nation. Reporters Without Borders said Atiana Serge Oulon, editor of the newspaper L’Evenement, was taken from his home in June 2024 by several armed men in civilian clothes. Burkina Faso’s military junta later said he had been conscripted into military service. Instead, according to the advocacy group, former detainees said Oulon and up to 40 other people were being held in a heavily guarded house in the capital, Ouagadougou, as of late 2025, contradicting the government’s claim. They reported sleeping on bare floors, having to drink toilet water and being beaten by guards wielding ropes and tree branches. Oulon’s current location is unknown.…