Every morning, millions of Africans hand their economic lives to a phone number, trusting that the system will not fail them. This Idero advisory makes the case that the real infrastructure at risk in African telecoms is not the network but the trust built on top of it, and ranks the full threat landscape, from DDoS and ransomware to AI-enabled fraud, by the damage each does to that trust. It closes with a practical 90-day roadmap.