 In March 2015, Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said 417 of the country's 436 mosques had been destroyed, and Muslim women were so scared of going out in public they were giving birth in their homes instead of going to the hospital.On 14 December 2015, Séléka rebel leaders declared an independent Republic of Logone.The Central African Republic is a landlocked nation within the interior of the African continent.