ABSTRACT: Food security is interdisciplinary; therefore, multiple socioeconomic, climatic, and other environmental indicators must be considered in assessing hunger and food insecurity trends. We employed the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which is a publicly accessible database known as FAOSTAT. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to assess the trends in extreme events. Food security components, hunger, and food insecurity are the main objectives of this paper. The trends of protein supply, supply of protein of animal origin, and dietary energy supply adequacy show direct effects of drought that are driven by changes in rainfall onset, cessation, wet/dry days, and spells on food availability. Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Uganda showed improvements in GDP as indicators of food access. Food utilization indicators showed improved water and sanitation services, an increase in obesity in adults, a decrease in the percentage of children overweight, and anemia among women. The number of people undernourished and the percentage of undernourishment, the number of moderately and severely food insecure people, and the percentage of people insecure increased in recent years, especially during the 2021–2022 drought. Although the percentage of undernourishment in Somalia fell from 60% in 2013 to 47% in 2022, the country is still recording the highest percentage in the IGAD region. The percentage of undernourishment never came down below 20% over Kenya and Uganda, while Sudan recorded the lowest percentage of undernourishment( below 11%) since 2013. The findings of this study offer specific insights on the observed status of hunger and food insecurity; therefore, countries are required to invest heavily in food production, verities of income, food system infrastructure, and consumption.