FORMER justice minister Given Lubinda and his lands counterpart Jean Kapata have lost the case in which they sued News Diggers Media Limited and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) for libel in January 2020. High Court Judge Pixie Yangailo has ruled that Lubinda and Kapata have failed to prove that their reputations were injured as a result of the articles published by News Diggers and the EIA. Kapata, Lubinda and former president Edgar Lungu’s daughter, Tasila, had sued News Diggers Media Limited, its managing editor Mukosha Funga Njenga and the EIA in connection with a story on illegal Mukula trade. However, Tasila withdrew her defamation claims against the defendants in 2023. The trio had complained against an article contained in...