Why is the Swahili language considered "potentially vulnerable" by "UNESCO" Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger? Doesn't make sense to me since it's a major language of Africa?

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Link: https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/swahili

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That’s surprising. The Ethnologue site, which is a reliable source, has listings for Swahili in Tanzania and the Congo and shows it as an institutional language in those countries, so not endangered.
Swahili | Ethnologue Free
Swahili, Congo | Ethnologue Free

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IIRC, the swahili spoken outside its native area has been pidgin-ized a bit, and English is taking over.

But that is old data.

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Only 65 out of the 7,000+ languages of the world are considered by UNESCO to be safe.

Safe: 65
Potentially vulnerable: 1163
Endangered/unsafe: 2698
Definitely endangered: 2362
Severely endangered: 463
Critically endangered: 383

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Well, it’s interesting to see then that is place hasn’t changed

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Surprisingly, there are some articles that claim, the use of Swahili is slowly declining The Changing Position of Swahili in East Africa on JSTOR

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Opening posts should contain enough information to start a conversation. Sometimes the “one box” summary of the link is enough, especially for something like a breaking news thread. But for one like this, you really need to give other posters a little more context.

I’ve closed the thread. If you want to try again, i can merge this thread into the new one if you like.