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Salvador Elá Nseng Abegue (1940 – 1 June 2022) was an Equatorial Guinean military leader, politician, and diplomat.
Salvador Elá Nseng | |
|---|---|
| Born | Salvador Elá Nseng Abegue 1940 |
| Died | 1 June 2022 (aged 81–82) |
| Occupation(s) | Military leader, politician, diplomat |
Salvador Elá Nseng was born in Añisoc,[1][2] a member of the Fang ethnic group.[3]
From 1963 to 1965 he trained at the General Military Academy in Zaragoza, Spain, along with other future leaders such as Teodoro Obiang and Eulogio Oyó.[2][4] He came to hold the rank of captain.[4]
Elá Nseng was key in the dismantling of the 1969 coup attempt, when he notified President Francisco Macías Nguema of the attempt and helped him to quell it militarily.[5]
During the dictatorship of Macías Nguema, he served as governor of Río Muni,[2][6] and was a prison official in Bata, responsible for the execution of several political prisoners.[1][7]
He fell out of favor after being implicated in the 1976 coup attempt. He was imprisoned at Black Beach,[8] and was released by Teodoro Obiang at midnight on 2 August 1979.[9] He was one of the imprisoned military men who joined the so-called "Liberty Coup", being responsible for leading its troops in the city of Malabo.[10]
After the success of the coup and Obiang's consequent assumption of power, Elá Nseng became the Second Vice President of the Supreme Military Council.[3] He was also in charge of the Finance and Trade portfolios.[11][12] During his tenure in these positions, he played an important role in establishing the first cooperation agreements signed with Spain and France, at the end of 1979.[13][14][15][16][17] That same year he was decorated in Spain with the Order of Isabella the Catholic, together with Florencio Mayé Elá and Juan Manuel Tray.[18]
In 1979 he also served as Governor of the Bank of Equatorial Guinea.[19]
In February 1980, he was dismissed from office and replaced by Eulogio Oyó,[4][20] immediately assuming the post of ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to China.[7][21] He remained in this position until 1986. He then served as ambassador to Ethiopia.[7][22]
In the 2013 legislative elections he was elected senator representing the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE).[23][24] He was part of the Permanent Commission of Foreign Policy, International Cooperation, and Integration, and of the Permanent Commission of Defense and State Security.[25]
He had a close relationship with President Obiang.[26]
He died on 1 June 2022 in Doctor Loeri Comba Polyclinic in Malabo after an illness.[27]
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