Desperate Dreams

Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe.

Many fall prey to ruthless smugglers or find themselves stranded in a foreign country without the means to continue or return home.

In 2007, Jenny Cuffe followed the journeys of migrants and now two years on, she traces the steps of Innocent Akibor, who set off across the Sahara for Spain - and investigates the fate of Fereinatu, who was working as a prostitute in Libya.

In part two, Jenny sets out to find Fereinatu, the teenage girl who was trafficked for sex but returned to her impoverished home in Benin City.

She disappeared one day, saying she was going to wash clothes, and relatives fear she may have been sucked back into the illicit sex trade.

First broadcast on 30 September 2009