The Cabinet of Liberia, together with the President and Vice President, form the executive branch of government in the country. The President, with the consent of the Senate

Senate of Liberia

The Senate of Liberia is the upper house of the bicameral legislative branch of Liberia, and together with the House of Representatives comprises the Legislature of Liberia...

, appoints cabinet ministers.

The current government

The following is a list of ministers currently serving in the administration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took office as president on 16 January 2006:

Office	Minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Toga G. McIntosh
Minister of State for Presidential Affairs	Edward B. McClain, Jr.
Minister of Finance	Augustine K. Ngafuan
Minister of Justice and Attorney-General	Christiana Tah
Minister of National Defense	Brownie J. Samukai
Minister of Internal Affairs	Harrison Kahnweah
Minister of Education	E. Othello Gongar
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications	Frederick Norkeh
Minister of Public Works	Samuel Kofi Woods Samuel Kofi Woods Samuel Kofi Woods is a Liberian human rights activist, journalist, politician and academic. In 1994, Woods founded and still runs the Forefront Organisation, which documented many of human rights abuses during the Second Liberian Civil War. He won the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1994 and received...
Minister of Agriculture	Florence Chenoweth
Minister of Health and Social Welfare	Walter Gwenigale
Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism	Cletus Sieh
Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs	Amara M. Konneh
Minister of Lands, Mines, and Energy	Roosevelt Jayjay
Minister of Commerce and Industry	Miata Beysolow
Minister of Gender and Development	Varbah Gayflor
Minister of Labor	Jeremiah Sulunteh
Minister of Youth and Sport	Etmonia Tarpeh
Minister of Transport	Willard Russell
Minister of National Security	Victor Helb

See also

• Liberian elections, 2005
  Liberian elections, 2005
  The 2005 Liberian general election was held on 11 October 2005, with a runoff election for the presidency held on 8 November of that year. The presidency, as well as all seats in the House of Representatives and Senate were up for election. The election marked the end of the political transition...
  
  
• History of Liberia
  History of Liberia
  Liberia was set up by citizens of the United States as a colony for former African-American slaves. It is one of only two sovereign states in the world that were started by citizens of a political power as a colony for former slaves of the same political power: Sierra Leone was begun as a colony...