Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will attend a regional meeting in Tanzania this week, official reports said on Tuesday, as pressure mounts on African leaders to tackle his controversial rule. Mugabe, who has come under a wave of Western-led criticism following a crackdown on the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), will brief leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at the special summit, the official Herald newspaper said. The discussion will focus on "the campaign by the MDC to unleash violence as part of its Western-backed efforts for illegal regime change in Zimbabwe", the Herald said.Zimbabwe's official media has highlighted what it says are a series of attacks by MDC supporters after MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and other party supporters were arrested and beaten after attempting to attend a banned prayer meeting this month. The crackdown raised tensions in the Southern African nation, where the 83-year old Mugabe has been frequently accused by critics of political abuses and disastrous economic mismanagement. The Herald said Mugabe would "brief his colleagues on the situation in the country in the wake of the MDC violence", which it described as a plot by Western nations to bring Zimbabwe before the United Nations Security Council.