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Government has locked the US out of participating in the G20 Leadership Summit's closing ceremony.

The annual meeting has been chaotic, with Indigenous protesters blocking its entrance last week and negotiations disrupted by a fire inside the venue on Thursday.

Natural disasters have left 279 people dead or missing in Vietnam and caused more than $2 billion in damage between January and October, according to the national statistics office.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa opened a G20 summit in Johannesburg on Saturday by emphasising the need for "multilateralism" to confront "the threats facing humanity today".

South Africa is hosting the G20 Summit for the first time on African soil.