After the violent unraveling of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenary empire in 2023, Russia did not retreat from Africa — it reorganized. Ukrainian intelligence has revealed how Moscow quietly transferred the political and espionage machinery Prigozhin built, known as Africa Politology, into the hands of the SVR, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, creating a durable shadow apparatus for continental influence. The disclosure of twelve operatives, shell company funding routes, and specific disinformation campaigns across Central African Republic, Mali, Chad, and beyond suggests that Ukraine's intel