While thousands of African risk their lives crossing to Europe every year, many from other parts of the continent stay on in North Africa because they've simply run out of money.
In Libya, undocumented migrants scratch out a living doing the jobs nobody else wants to do.
Amr El Kahky, in Tripoli, reports now on the migrants who got stuck on the road to a better life.
News24 : "Rustenburg - The unemployed man who built a helicopter from recycled material outside his shack in the Siza informal settlement near Rustenburg is beaming with excitement after News24 users offered to change his life."