Congo’s armed forces repelled an attempted coup on Sunday from Congolese and “foreign” fighters, an army spokesman said in a live broadcast. Defence and security forces had been able to put down the attack on the presidential palace in the capital Kinshasa immediately, Sylvain Ekenge said in a speech broadcast on state television. Some of those attempting the coup and their leader had been “incapacitated,” Ekenge said, without explaining whether this meant they were arrested or killed. Earlier on Sunday, unknown assailants had surrounded the residence of the deputy prime minister and economy m…