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Nine Jordanian men protesting against unemployment have threatened to commit suicide on Tuesday evening if their demands for jobs are not met by the government, local media reported. For over one month, the nine demonstrators have been staging a sit-in at As-Salam square in the city of Madaba, located roughly 30 km south of the capital Amman. The men, who are all university graduates from the Madaba area, have issued an ultimatum to the government asking it to find them jobs. “Waking up in the morning with no purpose and relying on my father for pocket money is painful,” Ibrahim Tamimi, a mech…