Yahoo's AFP site is not very good - it is heavily censored. There are several better places to get AFP news available here
Sometimes, when I find an especially good news source, I don't publish the links to articles because those sites tend to cut off access when they attract too much attention. This has happened on some sites that carried Reuters and DPA - those are no longer available.
But I'm finding this particular AFP story on some Australian sites now - try here or here. On these sites, they list the source as the Australian Associated Press, but they are simply republishing the original AFP story.