Egypt and Somalia signed a defence agreement on Wednesday amid ongoing disputes both countries had with Ethiopia. The treaty was signed after a two-day visit by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to Cairo, where he held talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The Somali leader’s visit came after Ethiopia signed a deal with the breakaway state of Somaliland last January, giving Ethiopia 20 kilometres (around 12.43 miles) of Somali coastline on which it intends to build a naval base. Somalia has fiercely condemned this move as an Ethiopian attempt to “annexe” its territory,…