Commando Hubert & the Burkina Faso Mission – May 2019 March 12, 2020 Unipro2013main French Military, Special Forces The Burkina Faso MissionOn the 9 May 2019, French Special Forces conducted an operation to free two French hostages who had been kidnapped in Burkina Faso. This is the story of that mission. Credit to : Liveth For Evermore: Military History