Salvador Elá Nseng
Salvador Elá Nseng Abegue (1940 – 1 June 2022) was an Equatorial Guinean military leader, politician, and diplomat. Biography Salvador Elá Nseng was born in Añisoc, a member of the Fang ethnic group. 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. He came to hold the rank of captain. Elá Nseng was key in the dismantling of the , when he notified President Francisco Macías Nguema of the attempt and helped him to quell it militarily. During the dictatorship of Macías Nguema, he served as governor of Río Muni, and was a prison official in Bata, responsible for the execution of several political prisoners. He fell out of favor after being implicated in the . He was imprisoned at Black Beach, and was released by Teodoro Obiang at midnight on 2 August 1979. 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. 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.