List of current interior ministers

This is a list of current interior ministers of the 193 United Nations member states, Holy See (Vatican City) and the State of Palestine.

Interior ministers of sovereign countries with limited recognition are included in a separate table.

States recognised by the United Nations

State	List	Interior minister	Political affiliation	Assumed office
Afghanistan	List	Sirajuddin Haqqani (acting)	Taliban	7 September 2021
Albania	List	Bledi Cuci	Socialist Party of Albania	17 December 2020
Algeria		Brahim Merad		9 September 2022
Andorra		Xavier Espot Zamora
Angola		Angelo de Barros Veiga Tavares
Antigua and Barbuda		Errol Cort
Argentina	List	Eduardo de Pedro	Front for All	10 December 2019
Armenia		Vahe Ghazaryan		9 January 2022
Australia	List	Clare O'Neil	Australian Labor Party	1 June 2022
Austria	List	Gerhard Karner	People's Party	7 January 2020
Azerbaijan	List	Lieutenant General Vilayət Eyvazov		29 April 1994
Bahamas		Bernard Nottage
Bahrain	List	Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa		22 May 2004
Bangladesh		Asaduzzaman Khan	Bangladesh Awami League	12 January 2014
Barbados		Wilfred Abrahams	Barbados Labour Party	23 July 2020
Belarus		Ivan Kubrakov		29 October 2020
Belgium	List	Annelies Verlinden	Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams	9 December 2018
Belize		Kareem Musa	PUP	13 November 2020
Benin		Sacca Lafia	UDNS	6 April 2016
Bhutan		Dawa Gyeltshen		6 May 2021
Bolivia		Eduardo del Castillo	Movement for Socialism	9 November 2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina	List (Republika Srpska)	Dragan Lukač (Republika Srpska) Aljoša Čampara (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (Dragan Lukač) People and Justice (Aljoša Čampara)	18 December 2014 (Dragan Lukač) 31 March 2015 (Aljoša Čampara)
Botswana		Edwin Batshu
Brazil	List	Waldez Góes	PDT	1 January 2023
Brunei		Ahmaddin Rahman		7 June 2022
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso		Jerome Traore^{[clarification needed]}
Burundi		Martin Niteretse		7 September 2022
Cambodia	List	Sar Kheng	Cambodian People's Party	3 February 1992
Cameroon		Laurent Esso^{[clarification needed]}
Canada	List	Bill Blair	Liberal Party of Canada	20 November 2019
Cape Verde		Marisa Helena do Nascimento Morais
Central African Republic		Pastor Josue Binoua
Chad		Idriss Dokony Adiker
Chile	List	Carolina Tohá	Party for Democracy	6 September 2022
China	List	Wang Xiaohong	Chinese Communist Party	24 June 2022
Colombia	List	Luis Fernando Velasco	Liberal Party	26 April 2023
Comoros		Houssen Hassan Ibrahim
Republic of the Congo		Raymond Zephirin Mboulou
Democratic Republic of the Congo		Richard Muyej
Costa Rica		Celso Gamboa
Ivory Coast		Sidiki Diakité
Croatia	List	Davor Božinović	Croatian Democratic Union	9 June 2017
Cuba	List	Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo		2017
Cyprus		Socratis Hasikos		1 March 2013
Czech Republic		Vít Rakušan	Mayors and Independents (STAN)	17 December 2021
Denmark	List	Kaare Dybvad	Social Democrats	2 May 2022
Djibouti		Hassan Omar Mohamed Bourhan
Dominica		Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic		Carlos Amarante Baret		16 August 2016
East Timor		Cirilo Jose Cristovao
Ecuador		José Serrano
Egypt	List	Major General Mahmoud Tawfik		14 June 2018
El Salvador		Benito Lara
Equatorial Guinea		Clemente Engonga Nguema Onguene
Eritrea
Estonia	List	Mart Helme		29 April 2019
Ethiopia
Fiji		Pio Tikoduadua	NFP	24 December 2022
Finland	List	Mari Rantanen	Finns Party	20 June 2023
France	List	Gérald Darmanin	La République En Marche !	17 May 2017
Gabon		Lambert-Noël MATHA^[1]
Gambia	List	Habib Saihou Drammeh		4 December 2017
Georgia		Vakhtang Gomelauri		8 September 2019
Germany	List	Nancy Faeser	Social Democratic Party	8 December 2021
Ghana		Ambrose Dery	New Patriotic Party	7 January 2017
Greece	List	Alexis Haritsis	Coalition of the Radical Left	28 August 2018
Grenada		Dickon Mitchell	National Democratic Congress	24 June 2022
Guatemala		David Girón	Independent	25 January 2022
Guinea		Mahmoudou Cissé
Guinea-Bissau		Botche Cande^{[clarification needed]}
Guyana		Robeson Benn		5 August 2020
Haiti		David Bazile
Holy See
Honduras		Arturo Corrales Alvarez
Hungary	List	Sándor Pintér	Independent	29 May 2010
Iceland	List
India	List	Amit Shah	Bharatiya Janata Party	31 May 2019
Indonesia	List	Tito Karnavian	Independent	23 October 2019
Iran	List	Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli		15 August 2013
Iraq	List	Qasim al-Araji	Badr Organization	30 January 2017
Ireland	List	Helen McEntee	Fine Gael	27 June 2020
Israel	List	Moshe Arbel	Shas	24 January 2023
Italy	List	Matteo Piantedosi	Independent	22 October 2022
Jamaica		—^{[clarification needed]}
Japan	List	Takeaki Matsumoto	Liberal Democratic Party	21 November 2022
Jordan		Mazin Al Farrayeh
Kazakhstan		Erlan Turgymbaev		12 February 2019
Kenya		Kithure Kindiki
Kiribati		Teima Onorio
Kuwait	List	Sheikh Talal Khaled Al Ahmad Al Sabah		5 October 2022
Kyrgyzstan	List	Ulan Niyazbekov		2020
Laos		Xaysi Santivong
Latvia	List	Rihards Kozlovskis	Reform Party	25 October 2011
Lebanon		Mohammed Fahmi		21 January 2020
Lesotho		Lebona Lephema		28 October 2022
Liberia		Morris Dukuly
Libya		Khalid Mazen		15 March 2021
Liechtenstein		Hugo Quaderer
Lithuania		Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas
Luxembourg		Dan Kersch/Etienne Schneider^{[clarification needed]}
Macedonia		Mitko Chavkov
Madagascar		Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana
Malawi		Paul Chidingu
Malaysia	List	Saifuddin Nasution Ismail	Pakatan Harapan (People's Justice Party)	3 December 2022
Maldives		Umar Naseer
Mali		General Sada Samake
Malta		Byron Camilleri
Marshall Islands		David Kabua
Mauritania		Mohamed Ahmed Ould Mohamed Lemine	El Insaf Party	31 March 2022
Mauritius		Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam
Mexico	List	Luisa María Alcalde Luján	Independent	19 June 2023
Micronesia
Moldova		Pavel Voicu		14 November 2019
Monaco		Paul Masseron
Mongolia		Tsendiin Nyamdorj
Montenegro		Rasko Konjevic
Morocco		Mohamed Hassad
Mozambique		Jaime Basilio Monteiro
Myanmar		Lieutenant General Ko Ko
Namibia		Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
Nauru		Charmaine Scotty
Nepal	List	Rabi Lamichhane	Rastriya Swatantra Party	26 December 2022
Netherlands	List	Kajsa Ollongren	Democrats 66	26 October 2017
New Zealand		Brooke van Velden	ACT New Zealand	27 November 2023
Nicaragua		Ana Isabel Morales Mazon^{[clarification needed]}
Niger		Hamadou Adamou Souley	PNDS-Tarayya	29 November 2021
Nigeria		Rauf Aregbesola	All Progressives Congress	21 August 2019
North Korea
Norway		Per-Willy Amundsen
Oman		Hamud bin Faisal bin Said al-Busaidi		2011
Pakistan	List	Rana Sanaullah	Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)	19 April 2022
Palau
Palestine ^[2]	List	Rami Hamdallah	Fatah	2 June 2014
Panama		Roger Tejada		11 October 2022
Papua New Guinea		Westly Nukundj		20 December 2020
Paraguay		Francisco de Vargas	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Peru		Víctor Rojas	Independent	21 December 2022
Philippines	List	Benjamin Abalos Jr.	PDP–Laban	30 June 2022
Poland	List	Mariusz Kamiński	Law and Justice	16 November 2015
Portugal	List	José Luís Carneiro	Socialist Party	30 March 2022
Qatar		Khalifa bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani		7 March 2023
Romania	List	Lucian Bode	National Liberal Party	23 December 2020
Russia	List	Vladimir Kolokoltsev	United Russia	21 May 2012
Rwanda		Alfred Gasana		10 December 2021
Saint Kitts and Nevis		Terrance Drew	Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party	13 August 2022
Saint Lucia		Virginia Albert-Poyotte	Saint Lucia Labour Party	5 August 2021
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		Ralph Gonsalves
Samoa		Fata Pinati Sala
San Marino		Valeria Ciavatta
São Tomé and Príncipe		Raul Antonio Da Costa Cravid
Saudi Arabia	List	Abdulaziz bin Saud Al Saud		21 June 2017
Senegal	List	Abdoulaye Diome		7 April 2019
Serbia	List	Nebojša Stefanović	Serbian Progressive Party	27 April 2014
Seychelles		Errol Fonseka	Linyon Demokratik Seselwa	3 November 2020
Sierra Leone		Edward Soloku		4 April 2018
Singapore	List	K. Shanmugam	People's Action Party	1 October 2015
Slovakia		Roman Mikulec	Ordinary People (Slovakia)	21 March 2020
Slovenia	List	Vesna Györkös Žnidar	Modern Centre Party	18 September 2014
Solomon Islands		Christopher Laore		24 April 2019
Somalia		Abdullahi Godah Barre
South Africa	List	Aaron Motsoaledi	African National Congress	27 February 2018
South Korea		Lee Sang-min	Independent	12 May 2022
South Sudan		General Aleu Ayieny Aleu	Sudan People's Liberation Movement-Juba
Spain	List	Fernando Grande-Marlaska	Independent	7 June 2018
Sri Lanka	List	Dinesh Gunawardena	Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	18 April 2022
Sudan		Ismat Abdel Rahman Zain al-Abdin
Suriname		Soewarto Moestadja
Swaziland		Princess Tsandzile Dlamini
Sweden	List	Gunnar Strömmer	Moderate Party	18 October 2022
Switzerland	List	Alain Berset	Social Democratic Party of Switzerland	1 January 2012
Syria	List	Mohammad Khaled al-Rahmoun		26 November 2018
Tajikistan		Ramazon Rahimov		5 January 2012
Tanzania	List	Hamad Masauni	Chama Cha Mapinduzi
Thailand		Anupong Paochinda	Independent	30 August 2014
Togo		Damehane Yark
Tonga		Lord Vaea		1 September 2022
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia	List	Hichem Fourati		2018
Turkey	List	Ali Yerlikaya	Independent	4 June 2023
Turkmenistan		Ovezdurdy Khojaniyazov		1 July 2021
Tuvalu		Katepu Laoi		20 September 2019
Uganda		Kahinda Otafiire		8 June 2021
Ukraine		Ihor Klymenko	none	18 January 2023
United Arab Emirates		Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan		1 November 2004
United Kingdom	List	David Cameron	Conservative Party	13 November 2023
United States	List	Alejandro Mayorkas	Democratic Party	2 February 2021
Uruguay	List	Luis Alberto Héber	National Party	24 may 2021
Uzbekistan		Pulat Bobojonov		2017
Vanuatu		Christophe Emelee	VNDP	4 November 2022
Venezuela	List	Néstor Reverol	United Socialist Party of Venezuela	3 August 2016
Vietnam		Phạm Thị Thanh Trà	Communist Party of Vietnam	8 April 2021
Yemen
Zambia	List	Jack Mwiimbu	United Party for National Development	24 August 2021
Zimbabwe		Cain Mathema	Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front	7 September 2018

States with limited recognition, non-UN member states

State	List	Interior minister	Party	Assumed office
Abkhazia (Republic of Abkhazia)
Kosovo (Republic of Kosovo)		Flamur Sefaj
Northern Cyprus (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)		Aziz Gürpınar	Republican Turkish Party
Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)		Maryam Al-Salik Ahmadeh	Polisario Front	14 February 2023
South Ossetia (Republic of South Ossetia–the State of Alania)
Taiwan (Republic of China)	List	Lin Yu-chang	Democratic Progressive Party	31 January 2023
Transnistria (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic)

Excluded entities

Entity	List	Interior minister	Party	Assumed office
European Union	List	Ylva Johansson	Social Democrats	1 December 2019

References

^ "The Republic of Gabon Ministry of Interior".
^ The Palestinian Authority renamed itself the State of Palestine on 6 January 2013 (a move not recognized by Israel). Do not confuse with the "State of Palestine" proclaimed on 15 November 1988 by the Palestinian National Council (PNC) in Algiers which remains a putative state, de facto ineffective despite partial international recognition.

[1] "The Republic of Gabon Ministry of Interior".

[2] The Palestinian Authority renamed itself the State of Palestine on 6 January 2013 (a move not recognized by Israel). Do not confuse with the "State of Palestine" proclaimed on 15 November 1988 by the Palestinian National Council (PNC) in Algiers which remains a putative state, de facto ineffective despite partial international recognition.

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