Mauritania ? Security forces early today forcibly removed Mauritania’s recently deposed president from the village where he had been under house arrest, his daughter said.

A police official confirmed that police were given orders to take ousted President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi into custody and drive him to his home in the African country’s capital, Nouakchott, where he will be freed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak the press.

A military junta deposed Abdallahi in a coup Aug. 6 and placed him under house arrest. Both the United States and France canceled aid to African country, demanding Abdallahi’s release.